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Iran: 'significant damage' due to the 'accident' at the Natanz nuclear center

2020-07-06T16:04:03.809Z


The "accident" that damaged a building at the Natanz nuclear center in central Iran on Thursday caused "significant damage" and "could slow" the production of advanced centrifuges for the production of enriched uranium, according to an official source on Sunday. Tehran on Thursday reported an "accident" in the nuclear complex housing a major uranium enrichment plant. The Iranian authorities have i...


The "accident" that damaged a building at the Natanz nuclear center in central Iran on Thursday caused "significant damage" and "could slow" the production of advanced centrifuges for the production of enriched uranium, according to an official source on Sunday. Tehran on Thursday reported an "accident" in the nuclear complex housing a major uranium enrichment plant. The Iranian authorities have indicated that they have established "precisely the causes of the accident" but affirm that they do not want to reveal them to the public immediately "for certain security reasons" . " There were no victims [...]but the damage is significant on the financial level " , says the spokesman of the Iranian atomic energy Organization (OIEA), Behrouz Kamalvandi, in an interview published Sunday evening by the official agency Irna, without extending on the nature of the damage.

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Behrouz Kamalvandi presented the damaged building on Thursday - apparently by fire, according to images published by the OIEA and state television - as "a warehouse . " But in his interview with Irna, he said that "it was planned" that this room would eventually produce "more advanced centrifuges" , without making it clear whether such machines had already started to be assembled there. "In the medium term, this accident could slow down the plan for the development and production of advanced [centrifuges] , but God willing, and with the incessant efforts ... of colleagues [of the OIEA] we will compensate for this slowdown so that more capacity is created on this site than before, ”he adds. According to Irna, the spokesperson stressed that the current uranium enrichment activities at Natanz were not affected by the accident.

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Under the agreement on its controversial nuclear program it concluded in Vienna in 2015 with the international community, the Islamic Republic is obliged to use only a limited number of so-called "first generation" centrifuges . But since May 2019, in response to the decision taken a year earlier by the United States to denounce this pact and restore economic sanctions against it, Iran has gradually freed itself from the key commitments to which it had subscribed. Vienna. Tehran has thus relaunched the enriched uranium production activities it had agreed to suspend at Natanz. Iran has also announced that it will remove all restrictions on its uranium enrichment research and development activities and work on the development of more efficient centrifuges. But Tehran reiterates that it has no intention of acquiring the atomic bomb as accused by the United States and Israel.

Source: lefigaro

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