Why Iran's enrichment rattles the West
Once it masters the difficult technique, a nuclear bomb is not far away.
By Peter Grier Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON – To begin enriching raw uranium into fissile material, as Iran now may have done, is to take a fateful step down the path of nuclear capability.
That's because it is perhaps the most difficult aspect of developing a nuclear power - or weapons - program. Centrifuge enrichment is a sort of technological ballet, requiring thousands of thin tubes to spin at outrageous speeds, each feeding a thin stream of uranium gas along to a neighboring tube, until the gas reaches the end of the cascade line.
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