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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Iran has slowed uranium output: UN agency AFP - Saturday, August 29 VIENNA (AFP) - - Iran has slowed production of enriched uranium, which can be used to make a nuclear bomb, and agreed to tighter monitoring of its enrichment plant, the UN atomic watchdog said Friday. ADVERTISEMENT Tehran has also granted UN inspectors access to a research reactor long out of bounds, according to a restricted report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, a copy of which was obtained by AFP. IAEA inspectors said while Iran was still installing uranium-enriching centrifuges at Natanz, the number of machines actually up and running had been reduced. A total of 4,592 centrifuges were actively enriching uranium, compared with 4,920 at the time of the IAEA's last report in June. However the number of machines installed had been increased by around 1,000 to 8,308. Iran is suspected of trying to develop atomic weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear programme, a charge Tehran denies. France, Germany and the United States have spoken in favour of an international energy embargo on Iran, which despite being rich in oil lacks domestic refining capacity. A senior UN official refused to speculate on the reason for the slowdown, which could be for technical maintenance reasons or possibly a sign that the Islamic republic was changing tack in its long-running standoff with the West. Washington said that despite the report, Tehran was still not fully cooperating with the IAEA, with a State Department spokesman downplaying the new access granted to inspectors. "Based on what we have seen, it seems clear that Iran continues to not cooperate fully and continues its enrichment activities," Ian Kelly told reporters. "As I understand it, it's just in one facility. It's not the kind of broad access that the IAEA has been looking for," he said. "We are very concerned that they are not addressing the concerns of the international community. "They say that they want to have the right to a civilian nuclear energy program but they also have the obligation to show the world that that is indeed what they intend to do." French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner adopted a combative tone, pressing for strictures. "If there are no international sanctions, there have to be sanctions on which we can work on and they have to be European sanctions," he said. The IAEA estimates that Iran has so far amassed 1,508 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6), up from 1,339 kilogrammes in June. Estimates vary, but analysts calculate that anywhere between 1,000-1,700 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium would be needed to convert it into highly-enriched uranium suitable to make a single atomic bomb. Tehran insists its atomic drive is entirely peaceful, while western countries are concerned it is a covert nuclear weapons programme. The IAEA's latest report will likely form the basis for six-power talks on September 2 to look into harsher UN sanctions against the Islamic republic. "This is the first time we have seen a reduction," the senior UN official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The report also said Iran had finally given UN inspectors access to its IR-40 research reactor in Arak, which the IAEA has long been wanting to investigate. "On August 17, Iran, following repeated requests by the agency, provided the agency with access to the IR-40 reactor at Arak, at which time the agency was able to carry out a DIV (design information verification)," the report said. Inspectors "verified that the construction of the facility was ongoing," it added. The IAEA said the next inventory verification at Natanz was planned for November. "At that time, the agency will be able to verify the inventory of all nuclear material at the facility and evaluate the nuclear material balance," the report said. The two sides agreed on improvements "regarding the provision of accounting and operating records, and on the requirements for timely access for unannounced inspections." But the IAEA said Iran was still stone-walling agency questions regarding alleged weaponisation studies carried out in the past. "Regrettably, the agency has not been able to engage in any substantive discussions about these outstanding issues for over a year," the report said, stressing it was "critical... for Iran to clarify the outstanding issues." 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