[Reuters] Hashem Kalantari - Iran plans to use a new generation of faster centrifuges to enrich uranium at a newly-revealed underground nuclear site in Qom, Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said in remarks published Tuesday. "We are hopeful of using a new generation of centrifuges at the (Qom-area) Fordu site," he said. Nuclear experts believe the new model of centrifuge is capable of doubling or tripling the output rate.
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