{"id":7719,"date":"2022-11-23T05:13:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T23:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7719"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:58:40","slug":"fordo-underground-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fordo-underground-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Fordo Underground Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>60 percent enriched uranium still isn&#8217;t technically weapons-grade (<strong>weapons require uranium enriched to 90 percent or higher<\/strong>), but having a significant stockpile of it could reduce the time Iran would need to make a bomb.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>2015 agreement:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Under the terms of the 2015 agreement with world powers, Iran is only permitted to enrich uranium to 3.67% purity.<\/li>\n<li>That deal gave Iran sanctions relief in return for curbs on its nuclear program to prevent the production of a weapon.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP) is Iran\u2019s second pilot enrichment plant.\n<ul>\n<li>The first is the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant at Natanz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is located buried in a mountain near the city of Qom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has recently begun producing uranium enriched to 60 percent at the Fordo underground facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}