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Watchdog Agency Reports Centrifuges Temporarily Shut Down This Month

November 24 2010

Iran

An International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that Iran suddenly stopped feeding uranium into its centrifuges at the Natanz facility earlier this month, according to the Washington Post.

The shutdown lasted up to seven days, said the watchdog.

There has been speculation that the computer worm Stuxnet was manufactured specifically to target Tehran's nuclear program.

The IAEA report is said to be inconclusive. Iran recently brought online over 1,000 of a type of...

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