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Iran's Secret "IR-10" Plant for Plutonium Bomb
(Le Figaro-France) Pierre Rousselin - For spent fuel from Iran's reactor in Arak to be used for military purposes, facilities for separating plutonium are necessary. A Western intelligence service has obtained plans for a factory to be constructed in the Shiraz region in southwestern Iran to perform this operation. The factory in Shiraz, called "IR-10," was mentioned publicly last April by Fereydoun Abbassi, former head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency. The facility would deal with spent nuclear fuel, including separating plutonium for fissile material needed to manufacture nuclear weapons.