However, Iran has been withholding surveillance footage from the IAEA amid its tensions with the West. Centrifuges rapidly spin uranium gas, enriching it. Separately, the IAEA acknowledged installing new cameras at a workshops in the Iranian city of Isfahan where centrifuge rotors and bellows are manufactured. Iran on Tuesday had said international inspectors closed off the two lines of inquiry over its nuclear program. The agency also installed enrichment monitoring devices at Fordo and Natanz, Iran’s other main enrichment site, the report said. and the matter is no longer outstanding at this stage,” it said. “The agency at this time has no additional questions on the depleted uranium particles detected at Marivan. The IAEA called the answer “a possible explanation.” Iran had argued the uranium traces could have come from “laboratory instruments and equipment” used by miners at the site.
It wasn’t immediately clear which nation was involved in the mining. The report said that “another member state” operated a mine at the area in the 1960s and 1970s under the rule of then-Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The IAEA report seen Wednesday also referenced that “Iran conducted explosive experiments with protective shielding in preparation for the use of neutron detectors and nuclear material” at the site. The report said investigators also have closed off their investigation of traces of man-made uranium found at Marivan, near the city of Abadeh, some 525 kilometers (325 miles) southeast of Tehran.Īnalysts had repeatedly linked Marivan to Iran’s secret military nuclear program and accused Iran of conducting high-explosives tests there in the early 2000s. and that the agency had no further questions on this matter at this stage,” the report said. “The agency informed Iran that, following its evaluation of the data, the agency had assessed that the information provided was not inconsistent with Iran’s explanation. Iran had argued those particles were a byproduct of its current enrichment as particles can reach higher enrichment levels in fluctuations. That had sparked tensions over the last several months as uranium enriched to 90% is weapons-grade material. The confidential quarterly report by the Vienna-based IAEA said inspectors no longer had questions on uranium particles found to be enriched to 83.7% at its underground Fordo facility. However, it continues to amass more uranium nearer than ever to weapons-grade level, worrying nonproliferation experts. unilaterally withdrew from its nuclear deal with world powers in 2018. The IAEA report eases pressure slightly on Tehran, which has been escalating its program for years since the U.S. VIENNA (AP) - Iran has resolved two outstanding inquiries from the International Atomic Energy Agency over highly enriched uranium particles and a site where man-made uranium was found, according to a report seen Wednesday by The Associated Press.
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