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Nuclear equipment in Iran, outdated and vulnerable | NewsKF.

Pausing uranium enrichment in Iran in November, unveiled Tuesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency, highlighted the vulnerability of the Iranian facilities, outdated technology, experts said Wednesday.

Information on at least one day off a revived speculation about a computer virus, Stuxnet, which would have slowed down its uranium enrichment activities, which Tehran denies.

“It is certainly feasible,” says Mark Hibbs, associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Centrifuges are machines interfere with the very sensitive and if one of them can cause more problems,” he notes.

For experts interviewed by AFP, the enrichment equipment in Iran are in any case be exceeded, making them vulnerable to attack from a computer virus.

Most centrifuges (P-1 or IR-1) are built on models dating from the ’70s, remember them. “It is very likely to be related to stopping work on controlling chronic technical problems”, said Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute of Strategic Studies.

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The IAEA report, there are 8426 of the IR-1 centrifuges at Natanz now 430 fewer than in August and just over half (4816) are supplied with nuclear substances.

The UN agency revealed in a report obtained by AFP that no centrifuge to produce enriched uranium was not powered plant at Natanz (in center of Iran) for at least one day in November, not to go forward on grounds that stops.

Most facilities at Natanz using low-enriched uranium to produce nuclear fuel. Tehran is developing a pilot center to 20 percent enriched uranium, for, according to the Islamic regime, the production of radioisotopes for medical research, which was not affected by stop

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