Iran produces more uranium gas

Iran’s nuclear chief today said his country had produced and stored 250 tonnes of the gas used as the feedstock for uranium enrichment, state-run television reported.

Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh, who is also the head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, said Iran had kept the uranium hexafluoride gas, or UF-6, in underground tunnels at a nuclear facility in Isfahan to protect it from any possible attack.