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Иран прави промени в реактора Арак, за да успокои ЗападаИран се подготвя да направи промени в реактора за тежка вода в Арак, за да успокои безпокойството за ядрената си програма. Това обяви шефът на иранската Организация за атомна енергия Али Акбар Салехи, предаде „Аарец". Западните сили са притеснени, че реакторът може да помогне за производство на плутоний - един от двата материала, заедно с високо обогатен уран, които могат да се използват за създаване на ядрено оръжие. Ислямската република твърди, че реакторът е изграден за производството на изотопи за медицински цели. В интервю за иранската държавна Press TV Али Акбар Салехи подчертал, че не вярва, че притесненията на Запада за Арак са истински и че те са използват за политически натиск над Иран. Но Салехи добави: „ Можем да направим някои конструкторски промени, с други думи да направим промени в съоръжението с цел да произвеждаме по-малко плутоний с този реактор и по този начин да успокоим и смекчим безпокойството ". Според постигнатото от 24 ноември 2013 г. споразумение между Великите сили и Иран Техеран не трябва да поставя нови компоненти или да произвежда гориво за реактора през следващите шест месеца.
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Iran may modify Arak reactor to allay nuclear concerns In what may be first such suggestion by senior Iranian official, nuclear energy chief tells Press TV some changes can be made. Iran is prepared to modify its planned Arak heavy water reactor to help allay Western concerns, its nuclear energy chief said in published remarks that could be the first such suggestion by a senior Iranian official. Western powers, preparing for negotiations with Iran on a long-term deal defining the scope of its disputed nuclear program, fear Arak could provide a supply of plutonium - one of two materials, along with highly enriched uranium, that can be used for the core of a nuclear weapon - once operational. The Islamic Republic has said the reactor is designed to produce isotopes for medical treatments, and has denied that any of its nuclear activity is geared to developing a bomb. In an interview with Iran's state-run Press TV, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, did not spell out how any changes could be made to the Arak plant. Press TV reported Salehi as saying he did not believe Western concerns over Arak were genuine, calling them a "fabricated fire" used to put Iran under political pressure. But he added: "We can do some design change, in other words make some change in the design, in order to produce less plutonium in this reactor, and in this way allay the worries and mitigate the concerns." Heavy water reactors, fuelled by natural uranium, are seen as especially suitable for yielding plutonium. To do so, however, a nuclear reprocessing plant would also be needed to extract the plutonium. Iran is not known to have any such reprocessing facility. The fate of Arak was a big sticking point in talks last year that led to a landmark agreement to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for some easing of sanctions. Under the Nov. 24 agreement Iran pledged to not install any additional reactor components or produce fuel for the plant during the six-month period of the deal. U.S. officials have made clear the reactor must be dealt with under any final settlement. "They do not need a heavy-water reactor at Arak in order to have a peaceful nuclear program," Wendy Sherman, the U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, told lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday. Iran already has built a heavy-water production plant that is to be linked to the still unfinished reactor. The future of the Arak site is expected to be one of the most thorny issues to resolve in the negotiations on a long-term nuclear deal with Iran due to begin on Feb. 18. Some Western experts have suggested a possible way forward might be to reconfigure the heavy water reactor into a light water reactor, which experts say would be much less amenable to any attempt at nuclear proliferation. Like us on Facebook and get articles directly in your news feed