Vienna: The United States has alleged Iran of having enough uranium gas to make 10 nuclear weapons and has called for new inspections in the Islamic Republic, a diplomat in Vienna said today.
The diplomat added that a senior US official had made the claim at a closed-door meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' nuclear watchdog in Vienna.
US ambassador Gregory Schulte had told the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors that Iran had failed on every count to meet the watchdog's call for it to suspend uranium enrichment.
Uranium, a heavy silvery-white metallic element, radioactive and toxic and easily oxidized, is enriched so it can be used as fuel in a nuclear power reactor or, if enriched further, to make an atomic weapon.
The diplomat added more to the information by saying that Schlulte had said that Iran had 85 tons of the uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas and said this was enough to make 10 atom bombs. Schlutle had also emphasized that there should be special inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities.
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