Stuxnet compromised the performance of centrifuge controllers used to enrich uranium for nuclear development.
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Drive the stream faster and the opposite happens: liquid separates, as it would in a centrifuge.
Its centrifuge machines could produce enough bomb-usable uranium for about a weapon a year.
That's the same weight as the magnets used in Iraq's gas centrifuge program before the Gulf War.
There is no indication that Iraq has attempted to import aluminium tubes for use in centrifuge enrichment.
There will also be more emphasis on space medicine, and the station is to get a centrifuge.
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In recent months, Tehran said it had begun installing more advanced centrifuge machines into the Natanz and Fordow facilities.
Yet how then to account for centrifuge deliveries intercepted on their way to North Korea and Libya last year?
The rate of the enrichment process from 3.5% to 20% is quite steady, in spite of the old centrifuge model.
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Each vial, in turn, could be heated, irradiated, zapped with a laser, filled with solvents, or spun in a centrifuge.
The main issue is why it is building a centrifuge system with which to separate Uranium 235 from uranium ore.
Iran had, he said, both developed a new centrifuge and increased its enrichment capacity at Natanz from 6, 000 to 9, 000 centrifuges.
First, all the experts who have analyzed the tubes in our possession agree that they can be adapted for centrifuge use.
Iran's plans for Qom include installing faster-spinning centrifuge machines than those now enriching uranium at its other known plant, at Natanz.
Obama also strongly rejected Republican accusations that his administration deliberately leaked classified information about a cyberattack on Iran's nuclear centrifuge program.
But at the end of that period, the North Koreans began cheating on the deal with some centrifuge technology from the Pakistanis.
He also had made innovations and discoveries of his own, such as the microscope centrifuge--a device he developed with Princeton professor E.
Iran also has been adding advanced centrifuge machines that are seen as capable of tripling the pace at which it enriches uranium.
It has installed thousands of new centrifuge machines at an underground military facility in the holy city of Qom, the IAEA reported.
That is an eightfold increase in centrifuge activity from a year ago.
Now Costner has partnered with Louisiana barge builder Lee Dragner to create a fleet of massive skimmer barges equipped with his centrifuge tech.
At Isfahan, natural uranium (yellowcake) is turned into a gas that can then be spun in centrifuge machines to produce more usable uranium.
And so you can artificially create that acceleration that makes you feel like you're in gravity just by rotating something like a centrifuge.
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It has also acquired for the ISS two microscopes and a centrifuge that can simulate the gravity on, say, the moon or Mars.
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Iran is also worried about cyberattacks on its nuclear facilities, such as the 2010 Stuxnet virus that appeared aimed at disabling Iranian centrifuge arrays.
U.S. and IAEA officials say they believe North Korea procured the P-2-style centrifuge designs from A.Q Khan following a barter trade conducted in the 1990s.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has since reported on Iran's efforts to build a more advanced centrifuge such as the P-2.
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Intercepted communications from mid-2000 through last summer show that Iraq front companies sought to buy machines that can be used to balance gas centrifuge rotors.
Beijing supplied the centrifuge technology that so impressed Hecker this month.
Having announced their decision to restart centrifuge-manufacture, Iran's leaders may balk at the even more provocative gesture, advocated by hardliners in parliament, of resuming uranium-enrichment.
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