The Islamic republic earlier this year said it would install the
new-generation centrifuges at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant. The
reports in Iranian
agencies appear to be the first time a specific figure has been given.
The announcement, which comes after talks between Iran and world powers in
Kazakhstan about its disputed nuclear programme, underline Tehran's
continued refusal to bow to Western pressure.
Iranian media on Sunday paraphrased Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, the head of
Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, as saying Iran was producing 3,000
new-generation centrifuges.
"The final production line of these centrifuges has reached an end and
soon the early generations of these centrifuges with low efficiency will be
set aside," Abbasi-Davani said, according to the Fars news agency.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said earlier this year that 180
so-called IR-2m centrifuges and empty centrifuge casings had been put in
place at the facility near the town of Natanz in central Iran. They were not
yet operating.
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