On Tuesday, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, RAFAEL GROSSI, announced that Iran has started producing uranium with an enrichment level of up to 60% in its subsurface Fordow nuclear facility. This development brings the country closer to being able to produce material suitable for use in weapons.
What are 3 things uranium is used for?
Nuclear power facilities and the reactors that power navy ships and submarines both employ uranium that has been "enriched" to include higher amounts of the isotope U-235. Furthermore, it has the potential for use in nuclear weapons.
Today, uranium is used to fuel industrial nuclear reactors that generate energy and to create isotopes that are utilized all over the globe in industry, medicine, and the military.
According to Iran’s ISNA news agency, the Fordo facility has begun generating uranium that has been 60 percent enriched for the first time.
Iran has long said its nuclear program is only for peaceful reasons and denied any desire to produce nuclear weapons.
In the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal on 14 July 2015, Iran agreed to shut down the Fordo reactor and keep its other facilities’ uranium enrichment at 3.67 basis points.
Former US President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the landmark nuclear deal in 2018 and re-imposed and re-imposed harsh restrictions on the Iranian economy as a direct consequence of this action.
Iran started violating some of the nuclear constraints of the accord after the United States pulled out of it, claiming that the limits could no longer be maintained once the United States left.
-Source CNN-
