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Israel-Iran live updates: Israeli missile has struck Iran, US officials say - BBC News | |
(32 minutes later) | |
Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, which is close | |
to the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), has posted a video with a caption saying: “Isfahan’s nuclear site is completely safe”. | |
The footage appears to show a man checking his watch near | |
the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre. The camera then zooms in on several | |
troops standing around what looks like an air defence battery. | |
According to the World Nuclear Association, the Isfahan | |
Nuclear Technology Centre includes a uranium conversion facility (UCF), which | |
produces uranium hexafluoride. | |
Iran feeds uranium hexafluoride gas into centrifuges to | |
produce enriched uranium, which can be used to make reactor fuel but also | |
nuclear weapons. | |
Next to the UCF is an enriched uranium oxide powder plant | |
(EUPP), which converts uranium hexafluoride into uranium oxide, and a fuel fabrication | |
plant that produces fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor. | |
Uranium oxide can be converted into uranium metal. Iran has said it plans to use uranium metal to produce reactor fuel, but it | |
could also be used to make the core of a nuclear bomb. | |
The Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre also operates four | |
small nuclear research reactors supplied by China. | |
Iran insists its nuclear activities are entirely peaceful | |
and denies it has any ambitions to develop nuclear weapons. But Israel accuses Iran of developing nuclear capability that could be used to make a weapon. | |
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