Tehran, YJC. Salehi says Iran can meet Western demands while preserving its nuclear facilities.
Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in a live show on
TV on Wednesday evening pointed to controversy over the country’s heavy water
facilities of Arak and said "We must leave Westerners with no alibi. We have to
be smart. It was not mentioned in the joint plan of action that heavy water
should turn into light water; but again many tried to raise dust over it.”
"We can remove alibis so that the Arak heavy water remains
heavy, we would only have to redesign it,” Aliakbar Salehi asserted.
He then pointed to the country’s achievements in building
centrifuges and said "Once 50 thousand centrifuges of the first generation were
needed to make the uranium needed for the Bushehr reactor. Now, though, with
the new generation of centrifuges, 50 thousand machines can cover 6 or seven
other power plants as well.”
Reporting further on the industrialization of the nuclear
technology in Iran he said that the IAEO has made contract with the Health
Ministry where it will be providing the health section with serums made using
centrifuges.
"There is a big research center in Karaj where the nuclear
technology is being examined on plants,” he stated.