International observers discovered 84% enriched uranium in Iran last week. This concentration is only 6% lower than the level required to create a nuclear weapon, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.
The agency notes that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have come to the conclusion that Iran has managed to achieve fuel enrichment to a level never before achieved in the country. previously.
The IAEA is trying to figure out how Iran stored enriched uranium at 84% purity, the highest level detected by the country’s inspectors to date.
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Now IAEA experts, Bloomberg says, will have to determine whether Iran has reached a record high uranium enrichment or whether it happened “unintentionally due to the accumulation” of fuel in the pipes that connect the centrifuges. Previously, Tehran had assured the IAEA that Iranian centrifuges could only enrich uranium to 60%.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said in early February that a surprise inspection of the Fordow nuclear facility revealed an undeclared change in the connection between two cascades of IR-6 centrifuges that enrich uranium to at 60%. According to him, the Iranians made significant changes to the design of the fuel enrichment plant without first informing the IAEA.
Earlier, the OilPrice resource reported that the US-led anti-Russian coalition is ready to make further sacrifices on a planetary scale just to suppress the profitable Russian nuclear industry. To do this, through the International Energy Agency and the IAEA subordinate to the West, a vast campaign is launched to discredit nuclear production in general throughout the world.
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