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VIENNA, May 25 (Reuters) – Iran has raised its potential
capacity to make sensitive nuclear material by installing
hundreds more uranium enrichment machines at an underground
site, a U.N. watchdog report said, a day after world powers
failed to convince Tehran to halt such activity.
The International Atomic Energy Agency also said on Friday
that it had found traces of uranium particles enriched to up to
27 percent at Iran’s bunkered Fordow site, compared with the 20
percent enrichment Tehran has officially reported to the IAEA.
The IAEA said Iran had told the U.N. agency that this
higher-grade enrichment “may happen for technical reasons beyond
the operator’s control”.
(Reporting by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
