Iran says new generation of centrifuges tested

Iran said on Friday that it has designed and tested the country's third generation of domestically-built centrifuges as the nation celebrated its nuclear energy achievements.

The new centrifuges, each 200 millimeters in diameter, are ten times as powerful as the ones operating in the Natanz uranium enrichment plant.

The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi, made the announcement at a ceremony commemorating the annual national nuclear day.

Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), says its nuclear program is for peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The West, however, alleges the program is aimed at developing the capacity to build atomic bombs.

Source: PressTV.
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