Zhukov
VIP Member
This is the first time I've heard the term "low-enriched", but I'll bet Iraq wasn't allowed to have it, wasn't allowed to be able to make it, and if they weren't capable of making it (as the absence of news reports of an Iraqi uranium enrichment plant would imply) they bought it from someone else.
Addendum:
Low-enriched Uranium (LEU): uranium that contains between 20% and .7% of the 235 isotope. Commercial Uranium is below 5%.
LEU can be used to increase the outputs of common methods used to produce HEU or weapons grade uranium.
This link suggests that it may have come from Italy, or China by way of Brazil in the late 80's.
I can't be sure whether or not they were allowed to have it however.
Addendum:
Low-enriched Uranium (LEU): uranium that contains between 20% and .7% of the 235 isotope. Commercial Uranium is below 5%.
LEU can be used to increase the outputs of common methods used to produce HEU or weapons grade uranium.
This link suggests that it may have come from Italy, or China by way of Brazil in the late 80's.
I can't be sure whether or not they were allowed to have it however.