The country has domestic sources of uranium. Its largest mine is at Saghand, in east-central Iran. But mined uranium is ...

David Albright, Institute for Science and International Security president and former nuclear weapons inspector, joins ...

The gas centrifuge method is the most common and efficient way to enrich uranium today. This process uses many rapidly spinning cylinders called centrifuges to separate the heavier U-238 from the ...

Centrifuges at Iran's underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz were likely to have been "severely damaged if not ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When U.S. forces attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 21, 2025, the main target was metal tubes in laboratories deep underground. The tubes are centrifuges that produce highly ...

A centrifuge production site in a nuclear program is a specialised facility where the delicate and highly engineered components of gas centrifuges are designed, manufactured, assembled, and ...

Iran has a long history of enriching uranium in an effort to develop nuclear weapons. It’s not clear how far the US attack set back Iran’s production of bomb-grade uranium.

The centrifuges as Iran's Fordow uranium enrichment plant are “no longer operational,” Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, said.