Steve Witkoff: “A civil needs mean that you're generally enriching to 3.67%…”

“It would be bought from the outside, from whether it's us, the Russians, the French, it's readily available. And countries like Abu Dhabi are running civil 1, 2, 3 programs for their own internal needs. A civil needs mean that you're generally enriching to 3.67% in a 1, 2, 3 program. You're not doing the enriching because you're buying it from an outside purveyor, but the fuel is being delivered at 3.67%. A research reactor like Tehran research reactor must enrich because it's a research reactor to do radioisotopes.” (16:32–16:40)

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