(JNS) International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors last week detected uranium enriched to 84% purity in Iran, just below the 90 per cent level needed for nuclear weapons, Bloomberg reported on Sunday.
The report, citing two senior diplomats, said the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog was trying to clarify how Tehran accumulated the material, which is at the highest level of purity found by monitors in the country to date.
Iran previously told the IAEA that its centrifuges were configured to enrich uranium to 60 per cent purity.
Earlier this month, the IAEA chastised the Islamic Republic for modifying the connection between the two groups of high-tech machines at its Fordow plant that enrich uranium to up to 60 per cent purity.
