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Centrifuges To Be Installed 'Soon' At Fordo Nuclear Site

June 08 2011

Iran

Iranian officials say Tehran is preparing to install centrifuges at the Fordo nuclear facility, the country's second site for enriching uranium, Bloomberg News reports.

The initial series of centrifuges will be installed "soon," Vice President Fereydoun Abbasi told the official Islamic Republic News Agency.

The Fordo plant's existence was disclosed in September 2009 in the side of a mountain near the city of Qom.

Iranian officials have claimed that the plant has a maximum...

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