Iran says it has answered plutonium questions

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VIENNA, Aug 28 (AFP): Iran has cleared up questions from the UN nuclear agency about its experiments with plutonium, a potential atom bomb material, according to a UN- Iranian working document released by Iran Monday.
The plutonium issue is one of several over which the UN Security Council has imposed sanctions to get Iran to cooperate with the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, which is investigating US charges that Iran is covertly developing nuclear weapons.
Iran's mission to the IAEA released in Vienna the five- page text of a timetable for cooperation with the agency that was agreed on in closed-door talks with IAEA officials last week in Tehran.
The IAEA is to file a report on Iran this week, ahead of a meeting of its 35-nation board of governors in September, which will be crucial in determining the level of Iranian cooperation.
The United States has said that Iran is playing at cooperating with the IAEA in order to avoid further UN sanctions, and that it is still defying the UN demand for it to stop making enriched uranium.
Plutonium and enriched uranium are both parts of civilian nuclear programmes but can also be used to make atom bombs.
The timetable said Iran has already agreed to five new IAEA inspectors and is opening the door to resolving concern over documents that allegedly point to it having a secret military project for developing the bomb.
Other issues are Iran's work on sophisticated centrifuges to enrich uranium and its building a heavy-water reactor to make plutonium.