From Jerusalem Post via NoisyRoom
By REBECCA ANNA STOIL
While a set of European-run simulations could indicate that Iran will be ready to build an atomic bomb sooner than anyone predicted, uranium enrichment is only one of three benchmarks the rogue nation will have to reach before it is ready to launch a nuclear attack against Tel Aviv, former National Security Council head Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday.
On Friday, Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper reported on a computer simulation run at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, through which scientists modeled the uranium enrichment capabilities of centrifuges operating at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility.
The results of those tests were not reassuring – showing that even if the centrifuges were operating at a mere 25 percent efficiency, Iran would possess enough enriched uranium to create an atomic device by the end of 2010.
But if the efficiency were 100% – and even if Iran has not (as it is believed to have) made improvements on the Pakistani-style centrifuges it operates – a sufficient quantity of enriched uranium to build a nuclear device could be ready by the end of 2008.
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