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Bushehr Satellite Photos:
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Iran Nuclear-Related Sites

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  • Arak: | Photos
    Location: Central Iran
    • Iran Nuclear Research Reactor (IR-40)

      The Arak facility is a heavy water production plant located 150 miles south of Tehran. As of mid-August 2002, this site was 85% complete. Heavy water production plants are not covered by comprehensive IAEA safeguard agreements. The Arak facility also contains a 40 MW IR-40, construction of which is planned to start in 2004.

  • Natanz: | Photos
    Location: Approximately 200 miles south of Tehran
    • Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (PFEP)

      Natanz is a pilot plant located approximately 200 miles south of Tehran that is under construction and hosts about 200 operational gas centrifuges. A gas centrifuge is one of the primary methods used in the process of uranium enrichment. The plant has two facilities, a pilot fuel enrichment plant (PFEP) and a large-scale commercial scale fuel enrichment plant (FEP).

  • Bushehr: | Photos
    Location: Southern Iran (port city)
    • Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP)

      A 1000 MW nuclear power reactor in southwestern Iran that is due to become operational in the second half of 2004. In 1995, Russia and Iran signed an $800 million contract under which the former would provide the latter with a light water reactor at the Bushehr site.

  • Tehran:
    Location: Northeast Iran

      Iran's main missile program office is located in the south-western suburbs of Teheran. The Tehran facility contains the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR), the Molybdenum, Iodine and Xenon Radioisotope Production Facility (MIX Facility), and the Jabr Ibn Hayan Multipurpose Laboratories (JHL).

Other Iranian Facilities

  • Tehran facility
    Location: North Central Iran in Tehran

      The Tehran facility holds the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR), a Molybdenum, Iodine and Xenon Radioisotope Production Facility (MIX Facility), and the Jabr Ibn Hayan Multipurpose Laboratories (JHL). The previously undeclared Jabr Ibn Hayan laboratory "now stores UF6 (1000 kg), UF4 (400 kg) and UO2 (400 kg)."[1] Iran also informed the IAEA that "it had converted most of the UF4 into uranium metal in 2000 at JHL. This information was subsequently confirmed by Iran in a separate letter to the Agency dated 26 February 2003."[2]

      [1] Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Report by the Director General. IAEA Gov/2003/40. 6 June 2003.
      [2] Ibid.

  • Esfahan facility
    Location: Central Iran

      The Esfahan facility is a Nuclear Technology/Research Center facility that contains the following reactors and facilities: Miniature Neutron Source reactor (MNSR); Light Water Sub-Critical Reactor (LWSCR); Heavy Water Zero Power Reactor (HWZPR); Fuel Fabrication Laboratory (FFL); Uranium Chemistry Laboratory (UCL); Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF); Graphite Sub-Critical Reactor, decommissioned (GSCR); and the Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP). This facility was constructed in terms of separate agreements with France (nuclear research) and China (construction of a 27 MW plutonium production reactor). The IAEA raised questions concerning the UO2, UF4 and UF6 production at the Esfahan Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) in February of 2003.


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