Iran has assembled some 1,300 centrifuges at a key underground nuclear plant and has started to feed them with the uranium gas necessary for enriching uranium, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday.
Iran has eight cascades of 164 centrifuges each at a heavily-bunkered underground facility in Natanz and "some UF6 (uranium hexafluoride) is being fed," a diplomat said.
The diplomat was quoting to AFP a confidential document the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sent Wednesday to the 35 member states of its board of governors.
The IAEA had agreed to "a combination of unannounced inspections and containment and surveillance measures," the diplomat said, adding that the IAEA had backed off from its insistence that cameras had to be installed to monitor the centrifuges.
Is there any POINT to continuing this charade?
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