Illicit enrichment

The Uranium Enrichment Technology (Prohibition on Disclosure) Regulations 2004 make it an offence to make an unauthorised disclosure of uranium enrichment technology.

Uranium enrichment is certainly the first condition for making bombs, but the level of enrichment must reach about 95 , compared to 3.5 for energy production.

Iran responded to the demand to stop enrichment of uranium 24 August 2006, offering to return to the negotiation table but refusing to end enrichment.

Indeed, when the UN Security Council formally demanded a stop to the enrichment program and imposed mild sanctions last December, Iran s defiant answer was to increase enrichment activity.

Nor was there much evidence of personal enrichment or widespread corruption.

They could also take enrichment courses (aerobics, therapeutic techniques and handicrafts).

There were also signals emanating from Iran that, having , having mastered uranium enrichment technology, the authorities could envisage continuing enrichment in a third country in a joint consortium with the West.

The spread of enrichment and reprocessing technology poses a particularly dangerous risk.

This will require an international institutional solution to the problem of enrichment, with participation in the enrichment process entailing new obligations, above all, the willingness to assure transparency through verification and intensive inspections.

More recently, the regime proudly unveiled a modern, high tech uranium enrichment facility.

We reaffirm that all cultures and civilizations can contribute to the enrichment of humankind.

Then, in November 2004, in negotiations with European representatives, Iran agreed to suspend nuclear enrichment.

Suspicions that these sites could be involved in enrichment activities proved to be well founded.

Their condition for negotiating with Iran is a prior halt of its nuclear enrichment activities.

Now, with its new enrichment plant, North Korea s access to fissile materials will greatly increase.

Of course, this enrichment included such practical benefits as medical breakthroughs and labor saving technologies.

As President Bush has proposed, tighter controls should be adopted on enrichment and reprocessing technologies.

This autumn, important decisions must be made, because the uranium enrichment process continues unabated in Iran.

The 2005 Summit Outcome recognized that all cultures and civilizations contribute to the enrichment of humankind.

Among other things, it must ratify the additional protocol and suspend all enrichment and reprocessing activities.

Mutual enrichment and advancement of knowledge and appreciation of the richness and wisdom found in all civilizations

His political supporters initially brushed aside the mushrooming rumors of his self enrichment as opposition KMT propaganda.

And in 2004, the IAEA blew the whistle on South Korea s non safeguarded plutonium and enrichment experiments.

As details on Bo s family fortune emerge, public discussion gets heated over the enrichment of party officials.

Promotion and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and enrichment of common understanding of human rights

Of course, this does not mean that once Iran has adequate enrichment facilities, it will make a bomb.

The final demand is that Iran shut down its highly protected underground enrichment facility at Fordow, near Qom.

Dialogue means dealing with diversity and difference as a source of enrichment, not as a source of danger.

My delegation fully shares the view that all religions, cultures and civilizations contribute to the enrichment of humankind.

In the mid 1970's, many parties to the NPT planned to import and develop enrichment and reprocessing facilities.

Russia has offered to provide nuclear enrichment and reprocessing services for the civilian reactor it is building in Iran.

Indeed, the US has now completely reversed its position of not negotiating with Iran until it stops uranium enrichment.

So far, the West has rejected everything, on the pretext that any uranium enrichment would indicate a military program.

In January 2011, a suit was filed against the company for fraud, false advertising, unfair competition and unjust enrichment.

Iran could easily do what Japan does hold enrichment facilities in readiness to make a bomb without actually doing so.

So, when the Bush administration wanted to oppose Iran s program, merely pointing to the bare fact of enrichment wasn t enough.

Germany has been determined, together with France and Britain, to get Iran to stop uranium enrichment through incentives and negotiation.

Russia and China should expect enormous pressure from Obama to do more to discourage Iran from proceeding with uranium enrichment.

But the enrichment provided by the humanities was no less enduring, though its subtler nature makes it harder to track.

In the Paris Agreement Iran subscribed to a total suspension of all activities connected with enrichment and all reprocessing activities.

The diversity of cultures and civilizations in the world must become the basis for their mutual enrichment, not for conflicts.

In addition, after visits by the French, British, and German foreign ministers, Iran announced a temporary suspension of its enrichment program.

Iran s insistence on enrichment inside the country is widely attributed to its desire to produce highly enriched uranium for a bomb.

However, in March 2006, the Bush Administration made it clear that they would not accept any enrichment at all in Iran.