Iran moves centrifuges

Vienna: Iran has installed a first cascade of advanced centrifuges in the underground Natanz uranium enrichment plant that its deal with major powers says can only be used for firstgeneration IR1 machines, a report by the UN atomic watchdog said.

Iran had informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it would transfer three cascades of the uraniumenriching machines from an aboveground pilot plant at the Natanz nuclear site to the underground one after an aboveground workshop burned down in an apparent act of sabotage.

Iran has installed and connected the cascade of IR2m centrifuges but has not fed the cascade with uranium hexafluoride gas, the feedstock for centrifuges, the confidential IAEA report, obtained by Reuters, said. — Reuters yesterday. — Reuters