外交人士：核查人员在伊朗发现高浓缩铀痕迹 (Diplomats: Inspectors Found Traces

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星期五(051206)
外交人士：核查人员在伊朗发现高浓缩铀痕迹 (Diplomats: Inspectors Found Traces of High Enriched Uranium in Iran)

外交人士说，国际核查人员在伊朗发现新的高度浓缩铀痕迹。这可能表示德黑兰正在秘密寻求核武器材料。新闻媒体援引不具名外交人士的话说，联合国原子能机构从伊朗以前的一个研究中心的设备中取样。原子能机构今年4月向联合国递交的一份报告说，取自这个中心使用的真空水泵化验抽样显示有高度浓缩铀的痕迹。高度浓缩铀是核武器所需材料。

消息人士说，对此可能有其它的解释，包括从国外采购来的设备有污染。伊朗官员从未说过那里曾经有浓缩铀活动。

Diplomats say international inspectors have found new traces of highly enriched uranium in Iran that could indicate Tehran is secretly seeking material for nuclear weapons. News agencies quote the diplomats, speaking anonymously, as saying the U.N. atomic energy agency took samples from equipment used at a former research center in Iran. The agency wrote, in a report to the U.N. in April, that the swabs taken from vacuum pumps used at the site turned up the traces. Highly enriched uranium is required for nuclear weapons.

The sources said there could be other explanations, including contamination of equipment bought from abroad, but Iranian officials had not reported nuclear enrichment activity at the site.