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Iran tests third generation centrifuges
DAWN.COM | World | Iran tests third generation centrifuges
TEHRAN: Iran's atomic chief said on Friday that Tehran has successfully tested a third generation of centrifuges capable of enriching uranium six times faster than those presently installed at its Natanz plant.
The scientists of our country have been able to design a third generation of centrifuges, which successfully went through mechanical tests, Salehi said in an address marking National Nuclear Day.
These machines would have (isotope) separation capacity ... more than six times the earlier (first-generation) ones, thus increaseing the output of enriched uranium in less time.
Iran has defiantly pursued its uranium enrichment progamme at its main Natanz plant despite three sets of UN sanctions and threats of a fourth.
The UN nuclear watchdog said in its February report that Iran currently has 8,610 centrifuges installed in Natanz.
The enrichment method used by Iran is a classic type in which uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas is whizzed around in a centrifuge to separate the precious U-235 isotope from the other denser U-238.
Salehi also said Iran is also producing nuclear fuel for its Tehran research reactor
DAWN.COM | World | Iran tests third generation centrifuges
TEHRAN: Iran's atomic chief said on Friday that Tehran has successfully tested a third generation of centrifuges capable of enriching uranium six times faster than those presently installed at its Natanz plant.
The scientists of our country have been able to design a third generation of centrifuges, which successfully went through mechanical tests, Salehi said in an address marking National Nuclear Day.
These machines would have (isotope) separation capacity ... more than six times the earlier (first-generation) ones, thus increaseing the output of enriched uranium in less time.
Iran has defiantly pursued its uranium enrichment progamme at its main Natanz plant despite three sets of UN sanctions and threats of a fourth.
The UN nuclear watchdog said in its February report that Iran currently has 8,610 centrifuges installed in Natanz.
The enrichment method used by Iran is a classic type in which uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas is whizzed around in a centrifuge to separate the precious U-235 isotope from the other denser U-238.
Salehi also said Iran is also producing nuclear fuel for its Tehran research reactor
