‘Iran building 3,000 high-end centrifuges’

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi says the Islamic Republic is building 3,000 new-generation uranium enrichment centrifuges.

According to Press TV, Abbasi said “The construction of the final production line of these centrifuges has concluded and the earlier generations of these centrifuges that have a low efficiency will soon be phased out.”
On February 23, Iran said more than 180 second-generation centrifuges had been put in place at its Natanz nuclear facility, and that more IR2M centrifuges would gradually be installed there.
Abbasi said on Sunday the Iranian private sector has successfully designed 360-megawatt nuclear power reactors, adding “We are ready to cooperate with foreign parties in the construction of power reactors and so far we have had proposals from Russia and some Western countries in this regard.”
The AEOI chief also said that Iran will announce other new achievements in the future as “political backup” in the next rounds of talks with the 5+1 group.
Iran and the 5+1 group (Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany) wrapped up their latest talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on February 27. Both sides have held several meetings mainly over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.