enrichment
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But his red line converged on the demand for zero nuclear enrichment.
From BBC
Iran has repeatedly stated it does not want to build a nuclear weapon and that nuclear enrichment would be for exclusively peaceful purposes.
From Los Angeles Times
Even enrichment to 1.5% purity would constitute half or more of the technical effort needed to achieve weapons-grade uranium.
Iran insists on its right to enrich uranium but is floating proposals such as reducing enrichment.
They include reducing enrichment to as low as 1.5% from up to 60% currently, pausing enrichment for a number of years, or processing it through an Arab-Iranian consortium based in Iran.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.