Centrifuge Quotes

Those impurities do muck up your centrifuges. It's not a problem if you want 3.5% enriched uranium for power plants, but if you go to 90% these impurities are a major problem. - Frank Barnaby

Those centrifuges and that whole question of suspension was part of a deal between the Europeans and Iran to help to build confidence -- to suspend the program while diplomacy could act and hopefully build confidence in the international community of Iran's intentions. - Mark Gwozdecky

This is not 'face-saving' research and development. This is not meaningful restraint on uranium enrichment development. Instead, under the guise of negotiations, Iran seeks to forge ahead with test centrifuge cascades that will allow Iran to perfect the technology, materials and expertise necessary to produce highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. - Gregory Schulte

These 4,000 centrifuge machines have not been declared to the IAEA, and the regime has kept the production of these machines hidden from the inspectors while the negotiations with the European Union have been going on over the past 21 months. - Alireza Jafarzadeh

The IAEA... won't know where these thousands of centrifuge components are. If you move them out from where inspectors can go, you can much more easily build a centrifuge plant in secret. - David Albright

The IAEA ... won't know where these thousands of centrifuge components are. If you move them out from where inspectors can go, you can much more easily build a centrifuge plant in secret. - David Albright

The 20-G Centrifuge is our largest facility certified for use by humans. Its capabilities make it a unique NASA resource and a very versatile research tool that is ideal for developing health-maintenance activities for astronauts. - Jeff Smith

That's what we think is new, that you could go buy some centrifuge design information through the Indian procurement system. - David Albright

Ten thousand centrifuge machines are needed to produce enriched uranium. - Paul Leventhal