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Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/iran-nuclear-iaea-int-idUSKBN2A21R0
Iran Installing Second Batch of Advanced Centrifuges at Natanz Underground Site
(Reuters) Francois Murphy - Last year Iran began enriching uranium at an underground plant at Natanz using more efficient IR-2m machines and in December said it would install three more. "Iran has completed the installation of one of these three cascades, containing 174 IR-2m centrifuges, and, on 30 January 2021, Iran began feeding the cascade with UF6" uranium hexafluoride feedstock, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report on Tuesday. Of the remaining two cascades of IR-2m machines, installation of one had begun while the other's installation was "nearing completion." Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, Kazem Gharibabadi, said Tehran had also started installing IR-6 centrifuges at Fordow, a site dug into a mountain.