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Iran seeking Chinese, Russian companies’ contribution to reconfigure nuclear facility

Politics Materials 10 February 2016 15:57 (UTC +04:00)

Tehran, Iran, Feb. 8

By Mehdi Sepahvand, Farhad Daneshvar - Trend:

Iran's atomic chief has said that Iranian experts, with the contribution of foreign companies, will redesign controversial Arak nuclear facility.

"Iran plans to redesign the Arak facility using domestic experts and get the foreign companies to approve the quality of the output," Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi told reporters Feb. 10.

"Iran is in charge of the reconfiguration of the Arak nuclear facility," Salehi added.

Saying that Tehran has held several talks with a number of Chinese and Russian companies, Salehi added that inking a contract is a time consuming and complicated process.

Earlier in January, Iran removed the core of the Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor and filled it with cement as agreed under a nuclear deal between Tehran and the world's major powers.

Under the terms of the deal, Iran agreed that the heavy-water reactor would be reconfigured so it will be incapable of yielding material for a nuclear weapon.

According to the landmark nuclear deal clinched in July 2015, removing the core of the heavy water reactor to produce less plutonium was a crucial step before Iran's relief from economic sanctions agreed under the deal.

After a number of nuclear talks between Tehran and the P5+1 group of countries, the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced Jan. 16 about the implementation of the JCPOA, aka nuclear deal, and the removal of economic sanctions on Iran.

According to the statement, the EU confirmed that the legal framework, providing for lifting of its nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions, is effective.

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