Fordo Underground Facility

About:

• 60 percent enriched uranium still isn’t technically weapons-grade (weapons require uranium enriched to 90 percent or higher), but having a significant stockpile of it could reduce the time Iran would need to make a bomb.

2015 agreement:

• Under the terms of the 2015 agreement with world powers, Iran is only permitted to enrich uranium to 3.67% purity.
• That deal gave Iran sanctions relief in return for curbs on its nuclear program to prevent the production of a weapon.
• The deal also called for Fordo to become a research-and-development facility and restricted centrifuges there, used to spin enriched uranium into higher levels of purity, to non-nuclear uses.

Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP):

• Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP) is Iran’s second pilot enrichment plant.
  • The first is the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant at Natanz.
• It is located buried in a mountain near the city of Qom.

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