Salehi: Iran to carry out photon entanglement test in coming months

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News ID: 12495
Iran » Iran
Publish Date: 15:42 - 28 August 2017
TEHRAN, August 28 - A senior Iranian nuclear official said the country is going to carry out a photon entanglement test by coming months.

Salehi: Iran to carry out photon entanglement test in coming monthsTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - “If it is conducted successfully, we will be the first country in West Asia and the Muslim world which carries out the test,” Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said in Tehran on Sunday.

He added that Iran had discussed cooperation in quantum technology field with the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).

The AEOI chief said after the landmark nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was signed between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries in 2015, the Islamic Republic became a member of the Euratom club, which is active in the field of advanced technologies.

Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council - the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China plus Germany - signed the JCPOA on July 14, 2015 and started implementing it on January 16, 2016.

Under the nuclear agreement, Iran undertook to put limitations on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions against Tehran.

 

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