Von Hippel to Iranian talks

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http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/munger/2008/12/von_hippel_to_iranian_talks.html

Von Hippel to Iranian talks

Princeton University Professor Frank von Hippel, who was in East Tennessee this week to give a talk at UT on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, also spoke at Tuesday night's public hearing on GNEP and stopped by the News Sentinel on Wednesday for a meeting with the editorial board.

After leaving here, he said he was on his way to Vienna, where there's to be a meeting with some Iranian government officials to discuss the nuclear situation in Iran. He called it a "Track 1 1/2" discussion, which involves non-governmental folks talking with government folks. Government to government would be Track 1 and non-gov to non-gov would be Track 2.

Von Hippel, like many others, is concerned about what's going on in Iran.

"What they've done is they've made material that is between 4 and 5 percent enriched. If they ran it through the enrichment plant twice more, then they could make weapons-grade uranium," he said. "And it would take less time than if they had used natural uranium. About two thirds of the work has been done."

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