>>1255457 (prev bread)

I like the idea...

It's been a while since I looked into this, and most of my reading has been on WWII era tech, but I beleive that starting with a quantity or low enriched material (5%?) can greatly boost the ease/speed of certain forms of Uranium enrichment.

In the Manhattan Proj. the U.S. had the luxury of trying several different methods of isotope separation and enrichment. Gasious thermal diffusion, I beleive got the material slightly enriched, but couldn't get it to a very high percentage. However, they could use this material to feed one of the other methods (cyclotron) which was far more effective starting with the enriched material.

Maybe the EU provided enriched material to help Iran get weapons grade enriched material more quickly? Q mentions 5% between talking about EU's relationship to Iran deal, and right before the Uranium One connection.