DUBAI: Iran is building about 3,000 advanced uranium-enrichment centrifuges, Iranian media reported on Sunday, in a development likely to add to Western concerns about the Islamic state’s disputed nuclear program.
Iran announced earlier this year that it would install the new-generation centrifuges at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant, but yesterday’s reports in Iranian agencies appeared to be the first time a specific figure had been given.
Iranian media yesterday paraphrased Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, as saying Iran was producing 3,000 new-generation centrifuges. “The final production line of these centrifuges has reached an end and soon the early generations of these centrifuges with low efficiency will be set aside,” Abbasi-Davani said, according to Fars.
The IAEA said earlier this year that 180 so-called IR-2m centrifuges and empty centrifuge casings had been put in place at the facility near the town of Natanz.
Tehran building 3,000 centrifuges
Tehran building 3,000 centrifuges
