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Under the terms of the nuclear deal struck in 2015, Iran was limited to operating around 5,000 older-model centrifuges, and the nation was allowed to use advance centrifuges for research purposes ...
Stuxnet's design and architecture are not domain-specific and it could be tailored as a platform for attacking modern SCADA and PLC systems (e.g., in factory assembly lines or power plants), most of which are in Europe, Japan, and the United States. [8] Stuxnet reportedly destroyed almost one-fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges. [9]
On 5 November 2019, Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi announced that Iran will enrich uranium to 5% at Fordow. [18] In January 2020 the Fordow site had 1,044 centrifuges designed to enrich uranium hexafluoride. [19] In January 2021 the Fordow site began to produce uranium enriched to a 20% level. [19]
The above-ground PFEP houses only a few hundred centrifuges but Iran is enriching to up to 60% purity there. ... Iran's only operating nuclear power plant, on the Gulf coast, uses Russian fuel ...
VIENNA (Reuters) -Iran has informed the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it plans to install more than 6,000 extra uranium-enriching centrifuges at its enrichment plants and bring more of those already ...
The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is located 17 kilometres (11 mi) south-east of the city of Bushehr, on the Persian Gulf. Construction started in 1975 but was halted in July 1979 following the 1979 Iranian Revolution. [8] The reactor was damaged by Iraqi air strikes during the Iran-Iraq war in the mid-1980s.
The revelation, released this week, shows the danger still facing Iran after Israel struck the country twice during the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip — and threatens to directly target its nuclear sites as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to re-enter the White House next week. Israel placed explosives in centrifuge platforms, Zarif says
Iran also plans to install 18 cascades of IR-2m centrifuges at Natanz and eight cascades of IR-6 centrifuges at its Fordo nuclear site. Each of these classes of centrifuges enrich uranium faster ...