The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has confirmed that during the early hours of Saturday the attacks against three Iranian nuclear facilities have been successfully completed. “We have completely completed our attack against the three nuclear facilities of Iranincluding Fordó, Natanz and Isfahán, “said the Republican leader in the social Truth network.
For its part, the Pentagon has detailed that the offensive on Fordó -print B-2 strategic bombers equipped with powerful anti-bunker projectiles. On the other hand, to carry out the rush on Natanz and Isfahán they have been used 30 Tomahawk missiles launched from submarines.
Faced with these attacks, The international community has celebrated that Iran no longer has nuclear weapons and has called for peace and negotiation. While the Iranians have reiterated that they did not possess such ammunition and that they were already negotiating. For its part, Israel thanked the United States.
In spite of everything, Iran’s atomic energy organization announced that They have not “registered radioactive pollution signs”after hostilities.
Fordó, the crown jewel
This Located in the Santa de Qom city, 90 kilometers from Tehranand it is the most important uranium enrichment central in the Persian country. It was built in secret in the heart of a mountain to keep it from air attacks and its revelation to the world in 2009 unleashed an international wave of criticism and sanctions to Iran. Only the United States has the necessary ammunition to destroy it.
In 2015, the Persian country reached a nuclear agreement with the G5 and Germany to transform the central into a scientific research center, but when the United States, under Trump’s first mandate, decided to leave said agreement in 2018 refined uranium again in all its plants.
Last May, the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA) suggested that They had increased their enriched uranium production until they reached 60 % of Fordó’s ability, relatively, since for the manufacture of nuclear weapons it requires 90%. “Iran can turn its current enriched uranium reserve at 60 percent into 233 kilograms of uranium suitable for weapons in three weeks at the Fordó fuel enrichment plant,” equivalent to nine nuclear weapons. According to Israel, before mutual bombings, Iran already had 15 of these weapons.
Natanz, two floors in a
This central has two uranium processing facilitiesone is the underground fuel enrichment plant (FEP) and the other is the pilot fuel enrichment plant (PFEP).
The first one was erected for “commercial enrichment” and has a capacity of 50,000 centrifuges of this material. At present, they are Installed about 16,000, 13,000 of them running until the uranium with 5% purity. The second suffered damage the first day of Israeli attacks. Specifically, its electrical infrastructure would have been destroyed by bombings and centrifuging could have been affected.
“Based on the continuous analysis of high -resolution satellite images collected after Friday attacks, the OIEA has Identified additional elements that indicate direct impacts In the underground enrichment rooms in Natanz, “the agency explained through its X account.
Isfahán, the home of the Iranian nuclear bomb
It is the second largest city in the country and in it is the Iran Nuclear Technology Center that includes the Fuel Plate Manufacturing Plant (FPFP) and the Uranium Conversion Installation (UCF) that I could turn this product into uranium hexafloride, which is introduced into centrifuging. Also, the OIEA affirms that in this central There are machines that allow the manufacture of centrifuging parts.
This center is especially important because there are equipment to manufacture metallic uranium, which can be used to Design the nucleus of a nuclear pump. Isfaham already suffered “important damage” during Israeli bombings, according to the Israeli army.
