Sentence examples for enriched material from inspiring English sources

The P5+1 (United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom, France and Germany) demanded that Iran cease enrichment to this level, ship out enriched material and close the enrichment facility at Fordow, which is devoted to enriching to 20% and seemingly invulnerable to air strikes.

Sanctions should only be lifted after Iran had ceased all uranium enrichment, removed from its territory its stockpiles of already enriched material, close its Fordo enrichment facility and discontinue its heavy water facility in Arak.

The Israeli leader has demanded that Iran stop enriching uranium, remove already enriched material from the country, shut down the enrichment facility and halt the development of plutonium.

Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense, said in June that intelligence suggested Iran could have enough enriched material for a bomb in the next one to three years.

Uranium enriched to 20% is much easier to turn into weapons-grade (90% enriched) material than the 3.5% enriched fuel Iran has been making for more than a decade, ostensibly for future nuclear power stations.

"It's much better," Clawson said, "to have the I.A.E.A. figure out on its own that there's a site and then find evidence that there had been enriched material there".

The new report said that since the last quarterly accounting, Iran has added only 3.8 kilograms, or about 8.4 pounds, of uranium enriched to 20 percent purity to its stockpile, bringing its total of the medium-enriched material to 185.8 kilograms, or about 410 pounds.

In the run-up to the talks, Iranian officials declared that they would never give ground on three "red lines:" no closure of Fordo and Natanz, no halt of low-level enrichment, and no shipping of their stockpile of medium-enriched material abroad.

The crisis began when the IAEA found traces of uranium-enriched material - used in the production of nuclear weapons - at the Natanz nuclear plant this year.

Compounds made from the 13C-enriched material are needed for certain medical tests, such as one that detects the ulcer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori.

Welcoming Monday's shipment, Kerry said that by divesting itself of this low-enriched material, Iran had already trebled the amount of time it would take to produce enough fuel for a bomb from two or three months up to nine.