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Experts: Iran will refrain from expanding testing of advanced centrifuges

VIENNA - Iran will refrain from expanding its testing of more efficient models of the machine used to refine uranium under an extended nuclear agreement with six world powers, according to US experts with knowledge of the issue.

 

Iran's development of advanced centrifuges is sensitive because, if successful, it could enable it to produce potential nuclear bomb material at a rate several times that of the decades-old version now in use. Iran says it is only enriching uranium to fuel nuclear power plants.

 

In what may be an attempt to clarify the issue and close any potential loopholes, a US think-tank said Iran would effectively be prevented from "moving to the next level of development" of its new centrifuges, under a seven-month extension of the preliminary deal agreed last week.

 


פרסום ראשון: 12.04.14, 12:19