Black market network sold Iran uranium documents
18/11/2005 - 14:20:29Iran received designs from the black market network that show how to cast fissile material into a spherical form, the UN atomic monitor said today.
Diplomats said that could indicate a design for the core of a nuclear weapon.
A document showed how to cast “enriched, natural and depleted uranium metal into hemispherical forms,” said a report prepared by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Agency officials refused to comment on the implications of the finding.
But diplomats accredited to the agency said it could indicate a design for the core of a nuclear warhead.
The report said Iran insisted it had not asked for the designs, but was given them anyway by members of the nuclear network – something an official close to the agency said the IAEA was still investigating.
