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Iran: New Nuclear Claims Underwhelming, False
Image from Iranian TV coverage of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right, wearing mask) lowering a domestically-made fuel rod into the Tehran research reactor.

Iran: New Nuclear Claims Underwhelming, False

February 15, 2012
| Security
| Middle East and North Africa
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Iran’s announcement today that it inserted a domestically constructed fuel rod into a nuclear reactor and that it will install a new generation of uranium centrifuges at its Natanz enrichment facility was underwhelming and did not live up to the hype it has generated over the last week by saying it would make a major announcement on the status of its nuclear program.

Iranian TV today showed live images of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad personally inserting a fuel rod made in Iran into a small research reactor in Tehran. An Iranian press service said Iran would add 3,000 advanced uranium centrifuge machines to its Natanz enrichment facility where Iran is currently enriching uranium to reactor grade under International Atomic Energy agency monitoring. The small Tehran research reactor is used to make medical isotopes and is not a proliferation threat. 

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