Iranian authorities first said a fire broke out in an industrial shed at its natanz nuclear enrichment facility in central isfahan province but us and european analysts said it appeared to. 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.
Satellite images suggest the production facility has been. This included the assembly plant at natanz which since 2018 has had the capacity to build and test up to 60 advanced centrifuges at once. 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.
Satellite images beefed up the photos from ground level that slowly led iranian officials to. The natanz nuclear plant lost a building when fire tore through it at 2 06 a m. In 2004 the roof was.
It is located at natanz the capital city of natanz county isfahan province iran. Natanz is a hardened fuel enrichment plant fep covering 100 000 square meters that is built 8 meters underground and protected by a concrete wall 2 5 meters thick itself protected by another concrete wall.
