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AT Natanz, about 130 miles from Tehran, the Iranian regime is constructing a vast "commercial scale" uranium-enrichment facility that will house as many as 55,000 centrifuges. Deep under several meters of steel-reinforced concrete, conveniently out of reach of the most powerful known conventional bunker-busters, the facility will be able to produce sizeable quantities of lightly enriched uranium (LEU) in a matter of months once it is operational. The steps required to enrich LEU all the way to highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium are few and have been described by experts as purely mechanical.
Some have argued that operational launch of these main "enrichment ...