Iran Presses Ahead with Uranium Enrichment Technology
(Daily Alert)

Iran is moving ahead with testing more efficient uranium enrichment technology, a spokesman for its atomic energy agency said on Saturday. Spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said that initial testing on a new generation of more sophisticated centrifuges had been completed, underlining Iran’s determination to keep refining uranium. “The production of a new generation of centrifuges is in line with the (Iranian atomic energy) agency’s approach of upgrading the quality of enrichment machines and increasing the rate of production,” he said. (Reuters)

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