ALVIS and IRAN offering to stop enrichment

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Subject: ALVIS and IRAN offering to stop enrichment
lightningtest 6/1/2006 5:45:23 AM

Can anybody out there comment upon the claim Iran got laser enrichment tech from russia in 2003. If the claim is substantive doesn't it make moot the russian offer of opening enrichment plants to inspection.

I understand ALVIS system can be fitted into a couple of 40ft containers and produce several Kg per year of HEU.

The only reference I've found in open source.

"In issue Number 120, published on August 8, DEBKA-Net-Weekly?s military sources reported exclusively that in the second week of July Russia secretly delivered the components of the AVLIS (atomic vapor laser isotope separator) system aboard unmarked military transports.

This accelerated and environmentally clean process of uranium enrichment was first developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, for the US Department of Energy in the 1970s. In 1998, the Iranians were reported working on their own AVLIS. The version supplied by Russian is apparently based on more advanced technology. While the US energy department suspended AVLIS development in 1998 [proliferation risk too great?], the Russians appear to have stepped up production, counting on an expanding future exports to governments bent on acquiring nuclear weapons.."

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