Iran Announces Plans To Restart Activities At Arak Nuclear Reactor

(Worthy News) – Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, says Iran is planning to restart activities at the Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor — a move that is not permitted under Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Iran’s ISNA news agency quoted Salehi as making the remarks in a meeting with lawmakers in Tehran on July 28.

Heavy water can be employed in reactors to produce plutonium, a fuel used in nuclear weapons. [ Source: Radio Free Europe (Read More…) ]