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The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats - free Energy hidden from 1914.

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Report: Iran Begins Uranium Enrichment at New Underground Site

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site well protected from possible airstrikes, a leading hardline newspaper reported Sunday.
Kayhan daily, which is close to Iran’s ruling clerics, said Tehran has begun injecting uranium gas into sophisticated centrifuges at the Fordo facility near the holy city of Qom.
Iran is under U.N. sanctions for refusing to stop uranium enrichment — which can produce both nuclear fuel and fissile warhead material — and other suspected activities that the international community fears could be used to make atomic arms.
Tehran says it only seeks reactors for energy and research, and refuses to halt its uranium enrichment activities.
“Kayhan received reports yesterday that show Iran has begun uranium enrichment at the Fordo facility amid heightened foreign enemy threats,” the paper said in a front-page report. Kayhan’s manager is a representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
But Iran’s nuclear chief Fereidoun Abbasi said late Saturday that his country will “soon” begin enrichment at Fordo. It was impossible to immediately reconcile the two reports.
Iran has a major uranium enrichment facility in Natanz in central Iran where nearly 8,000 centrifuges are operating. Tehran began enrichment at Natanz in April 2006.
The Fordo centrifuges however are reportedly more efficient, and the site better shielded from aerial attack.

Satellite image of construction site of Iran's new uranium enrichment facility near Qom.
Built next to a military complex, Fordo was long kept secret and was only acknowledged by Iran after it was identified by Western intelligence agencies in September 2009.
Both the U.S. and Israel have not ruled out a military strike should Iran continue with its program.
Tehran however says it needs its enrichment program to produce fuel for future nuclear reactors and medical radioisotopes needed for cancer patients.
The country has been enriching uranium to less than 5 percent for years, but it began to further enrich part of its uranium stockpile to nearly 20 percent as of February 2010, saying it needs the higher grade material to produce fuel for a Tehran reactor that makes medical radioisotopes needed for cancer patients. Weapons-grade uranium is usually about 90 percent enriched.
Iran says the higher enrichment activities — of nearly 20 percent — will be carried out at Fordo. These operations are of particular concern to the West because uranium at 20 percent enrichment can be converted into fissile material for a nuclear warhead much more quickly than that at 3.5 percent.
Buried under 300 feet of rock, the facility is a hardened tunnel and is protected by air defense missile batteries and the Revolutionary Guard, Iran’s most powerful military force. The site is located about 12 miles north of Qom, the religious nerve center of Iran’s ruling system.
“The Fordo facility, like Natanz, has been designed and built underground. The enemy doesn’t have the ability to damage it,” the semiofficial Mehr news agency quoted Abbasi as saying Sunday.

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Higgs boson 'God particle' close to capture, CERN scientists say

The most coveted prize in particle physics – the Higgs boson – may have... more

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Super-Small Transistor Created: Artificial Atom Powered by Single Electrons

A University of Pittsburgh-led team has created a single-electron transistor that... more

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World's Largest Atom Smasher to Awaken After Winter Snooze

When the world's most powerful atom smasher comes back online this month,... more

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Physicists Take New Look at the Atom

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The Secrets of Coral Castle and pyramids EXPLAINED by Leedskalnin's Magnetic Current theory

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Internet is made of cats, iPads, and TV executives

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Fights, roombas, deaf girls, infestation and some cool links

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Symmetry in the Subatomic World?

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Dont Go Buying A Netbook Just Yet-Next Gen Intel Chips

A bunch of great netbook upgrades are on the way—next-gen Intel processors in... more

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Mac OS X 10.6.2 hacked to allow Atom support

No bonus points for calling this one, but it looks like Atom support has returned to... more

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16 golden retrievers explain atoms

A crack team of PhD-trained golden retrievers illustrate the structure of atoms - the... more

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New Star Wars Gangsta Rap (VIDEO): Vader, Luke, Leia Throw Down

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Cell Size and Scale; Interactive Measure!

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Intel builds HPC cluster with Atom chips and flash

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs have built an experimental... more

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New Netbook to Pack Dual-Core Atom, Ion Chipset

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LG X130 goes from dawn till dusk on standard 9-cell battery

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From One Billion Light-Years to 0.1-m: What Will We See?

What would the endless border of the universe, if captured on a piece of paper, look like?

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Rugged Duros 8404 tablet PC: now with Atom, sunlight-viewable LCD

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