28 Mar 2024
Wednesday 16 January 2019 - 13:21
Story Code : 334827

Intel: Why Irans boast of new nuclear fuel does not violate 2015 deal

Al-Monitor | Mohammad Ali Shabani: The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) on Sunday asserted that the country is on the verge of designing more modern, 20% enriched nuclear fuel, sparking alarmist and inaccurate reporting in Western media.

Why it matters:When Iran struck its nuclear agreement with the United States and other world powers in 2015, it was in possession of 196 kilograms of 20% enriched uranium and some 10,000 kilograms of low-enriched uranium. Under the pact, Iran agreed to forgo its production and stockpiling of 20% enriched uranium for 15 years. It also consented to reducing its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 97%, capping it at 300 kilograms.

In an interview with the Iranian state broadcaster, AEOI chief Ali Akbar Salehi said that preliminary activities for designing modern 20% [enriched uranium] fuel have begun. He added that the modern fuel will increase efficiency at the US-supplied Tehran Research Reactor. The aging facility runs on 20% enriched nuclear fuel and is said to produce medical isotopes used in thetreatmentof up to 800,000 Iranians.

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