Iran offers explanation about changing mode of uranium enrichment

(MENAFN)Iran�s ambassador to the Vienna-based international organizations declared clarification about the country�s decision to alter the mode that was enriching uranium to 60 percent, adding that the decision was �technical.� Kazem Gharibabadi posed on Twitter that �There is no need for odd speculations. Change in the mode of 60% enrichment is a technical decision and was foreseen in the DIQ which was provided to the IAEA last week before the operation.� �In the new mode, two IR-6 & IR-4 cascades are coupled and with one time UF6 injection enriched up to 5 percent, two different products of 60 and 20 percent is accumulated. Enrichment operation became more efficient,� he further declared. The Iranian diplomat was commenting on press reports stating that Iran altered the mode of enriching 60 percent uranium.