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Eugene

(61,949 posts) Mon Jan 11, 2016, 05:06 PM Jan 2016

Iran fills Arak nuclear reactor core with concrete

Source: BBC

Iran fills Arak nuclear reactor core with concrete

11 January 2016 Middle East

Iran has removed the core of its Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor and filled it with cement, according to the country's official news agency Fars.

The fate of the reactor was one of the toughest sticking points in Iran's long nuclear negotiations last year.

Under the terms of the deal, Iran agreed the heavy-water reactor would be reconfigured so it was not capable of yielding material for a nuclear weapon.

The removal of the core is one of the final steps required by the deal.

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Iran fills Arak nuclear reactor core with concrete (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2016 OP

Big kudos to Obama and Kerry. nt thereismore Jan 2016 #1

Iran’s deputy nuclear chief denies that Arak reactor was sealed Mosby Jan 2016 #2

thereismore

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1. Big kudos to Obama and Kerry. nt

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Mon Jan 11, 2016, 05:10 PM

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Mosby

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2. Iran’s deputy nuclear chief denies that Arak reactor was sealed

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Wed Jan 13, 2016, 11:14 PM

Jan 2016

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s deputy nuclear chief is denying a report that technicians have dismantled the core of the country’s nearly finished heavy water reactor and filled it with concrete as part of Tehran’s obligations under the nuclear deal with the West.

Ali Asghar Zarean, in remarks to state TV Tuesday, dismissed the report by the Fars news agency from the previous day. He says Iran will sign an agreement with China to modify the Arak reactor, a deal that is expected next week.

Under the nuclear agreement, Iran must redesign the Arak reactor so it can’t produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. Zarean says once modifications are done and Arak goes online, Iran hopes to export excess heavy water produced there to the US through a third country, for use in research.

On Monday, the official Fars news agency quoted Iran Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi saying that work to dismantle the Arak reactor would be complete in about a week.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/irans-deputy-nuclear-chief-denies-that-arak-reactor-was-sealed/

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