U.N. inspectors visit Iran enrichment cascades

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U.N. inspectors visit Iran enrichment cascades
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Nov 5, 9:44 AM (ET)

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A group of U.N. nuclear watchdog inspectors has visited Iran's second network of centrifuges at its Natanz uranium enrichment facility, the official IRNA news agency quoted an official as saying on Sunday.

Despite U.N. Security Council demands that it halt nuclear fuel production work, Iran announced last month that it had started up a second group of 164 centrifuges, which spin at supersonic speeds to enrich uranium.

The networks of centrifuges are known as cascades. Iran says Natanz will eventually house tens of thousands of the machines but that it will only use them to enrich uranium to a level suitable for use in atomic power reactors and not to the much higher level needed to make atom bombs.

"They have visited the second cascade and the Isfahan uranium conversion facility," the unnamed official told IRNA.

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