Past the extent of injury performed to Fordow’s underground enrichment halls, one of many largest open questions is the standing of its inventory of enriched uranium, notably its greater than 400kg of uranium enriched to as much as 60 per cent purity, a brief step from the roughly 90 per cent that’s weapons grade.
That’s sufficient, if enriched additional, for 9 nuclear weapons, in accordance with an IAEA yardstick, although Iran says its intentions are peaceable and it doesn’t search atom bombs.
Iran did, nonetheless, inform the IAEA on Jun 13 that it will take “particular measures” to guard its nuclear supplies and tools which are beneath so-called IAEA safeguards, the oversight offered for by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Grossi mentioned.
“In my response that very same day, I indicated that any switch of nuclear materials from a safeguarded facility to a different location in Iran have to be declared to the company,” Grossi mentioned.
“Any particular measures by Iran to guard its nuclear supplies and tools … will be performed in accordance with Iran’s safeguards obligations … That is potential.”
