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IAEA inspectors visit Saghand, Ardakan

TEHRAN, May 7 (MNA) IAEA inspectors in accordance to the seven-article accord agreed upon in February have visited and will visit Ardakan Plant.
The inspectors arrived in Tehran on Sunday and a day later attended a meeting on Arak safeguard approach. The meeting ended, wrapped up the Arak Plant issue.

The previous time IAEA inspectors visited Saghand mine was ten years back in accordance to the additional protocol.

Ending the inspectors visits in the country, Iran will end the measures it had to take according to the seven practical measures accord and they will be the last visits of this round.

The inspectors visits started in Iran in line with the one-week long nuclear negotiations between Iran and sextet which commenced on the same day, Tuesday in New York.

Iran and six world powers signed a deal regarding Tehrans nuclear program in Geneva in December 2013. In accordance to Geneva deal between Iran and Powers, three inspectors of IAEA scheduled to enter Iran to visit Iran nuclear plants.

Iran and the Agency held talks in Tehran on February 9 and reached agreement on seven practical measures to be implemented by Iran by 15 May 2014. The agreed measures are:

- Providing mutually agreed relevant information and managed access to the Saghand mine in Yazd;

- Providing mutually agreed relevant information and managed access to the Ardakan concentration plant;

- Submission of an updated Design Information Questionnaire (DIQ) for the IR-40 Reactor;

- Taking steps to agree with the Agency on the conclusion of a Safeguards Approach for the IR-40 Reactor;

- Providing mutually agreed relevant information and arranging for a technical visit to Lashkar Ab'ad Laser Centre;

- Providing information on source material, which has not reached the composition and purity suitable for fuel fabrication or for being isotopically enriched, including imports of such material and on Iran's extraction of uranium from phosphates; and

- Providing information and explanations for the Agency to assess Iran's stated need or application for the development of Exploding Bridge Wire detonators.

By Mehr News Agency

 

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