IAEA report says Iran plans uranium-enrichment expansion at Natanz, Fordo

Centrifuges line a hall at the Uranium Enrichment Facility in Natanz, Iran, in a still image from a video aired by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting company on April 17, 2021, six days after the hall had been damaged in a mysterious attack. (IRIB via AP)
Centrifuges line a hall at the Uranium Enrichment Facility in Natanz, Iran, in a still image from a video aired by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting company on April 17, 2021, six days after the hall had been damaged in a mysterious attack. (IRIB via AP)

Iran has informed the UN nuclear watchdog of plans to install more uranium-enriching centrifuges at its Fordo and Natanz plants as well as bring machines recently installed there online, a confidential report by the watchdog says.

The International Atomic Energy Agency report to member states seen by Reuters makes no mention, however, of Iran’s enrichment to up to 60% purity, close to nuclear weapons-grade. Eight new cascades, or clusters, of advanced IR-6 centrifuges at Fordo would enrich to up to 5% purity, Iran informs the IAEA.

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