Tehran:
An “accident” took spot at an Iranian nuclear facility on Sunday but brought on no casualties or harm, the Fars news agency reported, citing the spokesman of Iran’s nuclear agency.
Behrouz Kamalvandi stated there had been “an accident in part of the electrical circuit of the (uranium) enrichment facility” at the Natanz complicated, a day just after Iran announced it had began up sophisticated uranium enrichment centrifuges at the internet site in a breach of its undertakings below a troubled 2015 nuclear deal.
There have been “no casualties nor pollution”, he stated, adding that “the causes of the accident are under investigation and more details will be released later”.
The accident follows an explosion at a factory for sophisticated centrifuges at Natanz final July.
The authorities blamed that incident on “sabotage” by “terrorists”, but have not released the benefits of their investigation into it.
President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday inaugurated a replacement factory at Natanz as properly as a cascade of centrifuges for enriching uranium and two test cascades, in a ceremony broadcast by state tv.
The new gear enables Iran to enrich uranium more promptly and in greater quantities, to levels that violate the 2015 nuclear deal.
The administration of then-US president Donald Trump withdrew from the multilateral accord in 2018 and re-imposed biting sanctions. Iran later responded by progressively rolling back its personal commitments below the agreement.
Parties to the deal opened talks in Vienna on Tuesday with the aim of bringing the US back to the deal, bringing Iran back into compliance and lifting sanctions.
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