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 Yellowcake |
Disregarding international sanctions against its budding nuclear development program, Iran is on a crash course to obtain uranium from Africa and Latin America to mine into yellowcake, and eventually use as fuel for its nuclear reactors, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The United Nations last year announced the sanctions over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program because many Westerners believe it is intended to develop nuclear weapons.
But Tehran’s search has taken on an urgent tone because it doesn’t have adequate uranium ore domestically, and it needs fuel to keep its nuclear reactor ambitions alive.
Analysts say Iran simply doesn’t have enough of its own uranium ore to develop an independent nuclear capability, and what reserves it does have are assessed to be limited and generally of poor quality.
“(Iran) desperately needs steady supplies of uranium ore from abroad, and without those supplies the Islamic Republic’s nuclear plans would, quite simply, grind to a halt,” said Ilan Berman, vice president of the Washington-based American Foreign Policy Council.
Iran did have a limited supply, acquired from South Africa in the 1970s, but most of that is gone and Iran is looking for new sources that can ensure a reliable supply.
The uranium ore first is converted into basic fuel for Iran’s nuclear reactors. Through a series of re-enrichment efforts, however, it could be useful for a nuclear bomb, although Iran is assessed by Western intelligence to be having difficulties achieving that level and is still a few years from achieving it.
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