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IAEA: Iran Expands Nuclear Capacity, Delays Plutonium Reactor
(Reuters-Chicago Tribune) Fredrik Dahl - Iran plans to test 1,000 advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges it has completed installing, the UN atomic agency's quarterly report showed. Iran had also informed the IAEA that the planned commissioning of the Arak plutonium research reactor - which could yield potential bomb material - had been delayed from early next year. Further, since the previous IAEA report in May, Iran's reserve of uranium gas refined to 20% was 186 kg. - below the 240-250 kg. "red line" needed for a bomb - as Iran stepped up conversion of the material into oxide to make fuel for a medical research reactor in Tehran.