LEU

The U.S. has already helped convert or verified the shutdown of 67 reactors in 32 countries from HEU to low-enriched uranium, or LEU, which is much harder to weaponize.

FOXNews.com 2010

Should all sides show good-faith and flexibility, this could turn into a "win-win" scenario: Iran would agree to dip into its store of LEU, which is a national security asset, and the West would enter into a new phase of "turning confrontation into cooperation", as anticipated by ElBaradei.

MyAntiwar.org 2009

Obama's letter specifying conditions for an LEU swap gave explicit support to the exact terms of the deal that was finally negotiated by Turkey and Brazil.

David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran David Bromwich 2012

But sanctions imposed by Obama and the EU (with partial, equivocal, irregular agreement by Russia and China) have kept biting deeper even as negotiation is offered: peace and favorable trade relations, in exchange for the surrender of low-enriched uranium (LEU).

David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran David Bromwich 2012

This was the Brazil-Turkey swap of LEU which emerged as a concrete proposal acceptable to Iran.

David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran David Bromwich 2012

At the second round of negotiations, on October 19, the sticking point was the central role assigned to France: a country that Iran with reason distrusts even more than it distrusts the U.S. Russia now interceded to subcontract for a swap of LEU in place of France.

David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran David Bromwich 2012

But sanctions imposed by Obama and the EU (with partial, equivocal, irregular agreement by Russia and China) have kept biting deeper even as negotiation is offered: peace and favorable trade relations, in exchange for the surrender of low-enriched uranium (LEU).

David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran David Bromwich 2012

This was the Brazil-Turkey swap of LEU which emerged as a concrete proposal acceptable to Iran.

David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran David Bromwich 2012

At the second round of negotiations, on October 19, the sticking point was the central role assigned to France: a country that Iran with reason distrusts even more than it distrusts the U.S. Russia now interceded to subcontract for a swap of LEU in place of France.

David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran David Bromwich 2012

Obama's letter specifying conditions for an LEU swap gave explicit support to the exact terms of the deal that was finally negotiated by Turkey and Brazil.

David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran David Bromwich 2012