Two days later on july 2 the notorious natanz uranium enrichment plant which became active in 2018 as iran s principal place to develop centrifuges required to produce uranium and other. In accordance with code 3 1 of the subsidiary arrangements to iran s safeguards agreement that were in force up to that time iran was not obligated to declare the natanz enrichment facility until six months before nuclear material was introduced into the facility. Tehran iran an incident damaged an under construction building thursday near iran s underground natanz nuclear enrichment facility though it did not affect its centrifuge operations or.
Iran had alerted the world to the incident in the morning of july 2 and even took state. The building affected by some kind of an explosion is located at the natanz nuclear enrichment facility. It is better not to mention our actions in iran.
Asked about natanz ashkenazi told a forum in jerusalem that israel had a long term policy not to allow iran to obtain nuclear weapons adding. Iran s atomic energy organisation aeoi said on july 2 that. The explosion at iran s natanz nuclear facility early july was due to a security breach an iranian lawmaker said wednesday.
Natanz which is about 250km 155 miles south of the capital tehran is iran s largest uranium. Iran insists its nuclear programme is peaceful and denies that it sought to develop nuclear weapons. Natanz nuclear facility located some 30 km nnw from the town near a major highway is generally recognized as iran s central facility for uranium enrichment with over 19 000 gas centrifuges currently operational and nearly half of them being fed with uranium hexafluenrichment of uranium at the plant was halted in july 2004 during negotiations with european countries.
Shows the substantial damage done by an explosion and a fire at an advanced centrifuge assembly plant at iran s natanz nuclear site. This satellite image from planet labs inc. Satellite images of.
In recent days speculation has flourished about what exactly happened at natanz an assembly plant for centrifuges used to enrich uranium and other facilities around iran.
