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		</div><p>Iran is set to break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran&#8217;s nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days, the country&#8217;s atomic agency said.</p>
<p>Spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said Iran needed to increase uranium enrichment levels up to 20% &#8211; only one step away from weapons-grade material.</p>
<p>He spoke during a news conference at the Arak heavy water facility which was broadcast live on Iranian state television.</p>
<p>Mr Kamalvandi&#8217;s comments follow suspected attacks on oil tankers last week in the region which the US has blamed on Iran.</p>
<p>Tensions between Tehran and Washington are running high, a year after US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the 2015 nuclear deal partly brokered by his predecessor, Barack Obama.</p>
<p>Mr Kamalvandi said Iran needs 5% enrichment for its nuclear power plant in the southern port of Bushehr, and 20% enrichment for a Tehran research reactor.</p>
<p>When uranium is mined, it typically has about 140 atoms of an unwanted isotope, U-238, for every atom of U-235.</p>
<p>Refining it to a purity of 3.67%, the level now allowed by the nuclear deal, means removing 114 unwanted atoms of U-238 for every atom of U-235.</p>
<p>The spokesman noted that boosting its purity to 20% means removing 22 more unwanted isotopes per atom of U-235, while going from there to 90% purity means removing just four more isotopes per atom of U-235.</p>
<p>Ninety per cent purity is considered weapons-grade material.</p>
<p>This means that going from 20% to 90% enrichment is a relatively quicker process, something that worries nuclear non-proliferation experts.</p>
<p>Mr Kamalvandi acknowledged that Iran has already quadrupled its production of low-enriched uranium.</p>
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