Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, in an interview with the Washington Times, warned against fuel delivering to the Iranian regime by Russia and said: “At any time while it is loading the fuel, Tehran could seize it and have enough uranium feed for its centrifuges at Natanz to make up to 150 crude nuclear weapons,”
He added: “It takes far less time and effort to enrich the Russian shipment to weapons grade than it would to enrich natural uranium.
“It would take Iran a year to obtain a bomb from natural uranium. But Iran could enrich the reactor fuel from Russia and obtain enough for a bomb in six to eight weeks.
To make a single bomb, all Iran would need to do would be to divert 5 percent of the spent fuel. It could do this without setting off international alarms by temporarily blocking or blacking out IAEA surveillance cameras and substituting fake fuel rods in place of the ones it removes.
