Iran Almost Ready For 60% Uranium Enrichment: IAEA

Iran has almost completed preparations’ for 60 percent uranium enrichment.

This is coming from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a statement on Monday, a day after Tehran warned it would do so. 

The IAEA in a statement said Iran assured the necessary pipework was being finalised and centrifuges would start soon thereafter at the Natanz plant.

Uranium enrichment is a process that is necessary to create an effective nuclear fuel out of mined uranium by increasing the percentage of uranium-235 which undergoes fission with thermal neutrons.

Uranium can be enriched by separating isotopes of uranium with lasers.

Lasers can increase the energy in the electrons of a specific isotope, changing its properties and allowing it to be separated.