TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran has unveiled 133 new nuclear achievements made by the country’s experts in different areas of the nuclear industry, including quantum, enrichment, heavy water and deuterium compounds, radiopharmaceuticals, lasers, and etc.
In a video conference call on Saturday, President Hassan Rouhani unveiled the nuclear achievements in the provinces of Tehran, Markazi, Isfahan, Alborz and Qom to mark the 15th anniversary of the National Nuclear Technology Day.
On his order, Iranian experts began injecting gas to a new generation centrifuges in Natanz enrichment complex and also the mechanical testing of IR-9 centrifuge was started and the assembly center of the new generation centrifuges was put into operation.
Iran showed to the world the peaceful nature of its nuclear program by signing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with six world states — namely the US, Germany, France, Britain, Russia and China — in 2015. The nuclear deal was also ratified in the form of a UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
Addressing Saturday’s event, Rouhani said one of the honorable effects of the JCPOA was that it completely legalized the nuclear industry in Iran.
“I reiterate that all our nuclear activities are peaceful and for civilian purposes. As Leader [of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei] has repeatedly stated, in our religion, pursuing a weapon that can be a great danger to a large community is forbidden,” he noted.
The president also thanked Ali-Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), and the staff of the organization, for the 133 nuclear achievements made over the past year.
“Today, a chain of 164 IR-6 centrifuges was launched. It can provide us with products 10 times more than those of the previous chain. This means that the previous centrifuges were at most 1 SWU (Separative Work Units), but this new series is 10 SWU,” he said.
“Even today, we have developed the IR-9 centrifuge with the capacity of 50 SWU in terms of technology, i.e. they provide us products 50 to 60 times more than those of the old centrifuges.”
Rouhani note that, “Radiopharmaceuticals are one of the products which are used for diagnostics and are very important in medicine.”
Meanwhile the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said that the infrastructure of the nuclear industry was maintained with high sensitivity.
Ali-Akbar Salehi stated that despite all the restrictions and pressures caused by illegal and oppressive sanctions imposed by the ill-wishers of Islamic Iran, various projects in diverse fields of nuclear science had been vigorously pursued.
Noting that the infrastructure of the nuclear industry was maintained with high sensitivity, he said if the Iranian authorities and senior decision-makers delegate something to the officials of the nuclear industry, a great flourish will come out in a short time.
He pointed out that the introduction of 133 new achievements, especially in capabilities of the health, industry, and agriculture sectors, as well as assistance to energy supply projects at the national level, had been a clear proof of this claim.
