Iran says installing 6,000 enrichment centrifuges

by Dave Keating | April 8, 2008 at 02:07 am

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As the West continues to discuss its options for controlling Iran's nuclear enrichment program, the country is advancing full speed ahead on the process.

Iran has started to install 6,000 advanced centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, an expansion of nuclear work the West fears is aimed at building bombs.

Diplomats in Vienna told Reuters last week that Tehran was installing advanced enrichment centrifuges at the underground Natanz facility, accelerating activity that could give Iran the means to make atom bombs in the future if it chose to.

Iran, the world's fourth largest oil exporter, says it wants nuclear technology to generate electricity.