Israel bombed Iran’s heavy nuclear facility..
Israel’s military assault reportedly struck Iran’s still-under-construction Arak heavy water reactor on Thursday, June 19.
Israel launched its seventh day of airstrikes on Iran the day after Iran’s supreme commander declared that any American military intervention would result in “irreparable damage to them” and rejected American demands for surrender.
The plant’s core was removed and filled with concrete as part of a 2015 agreement with major powers to lower the risk of proliferation.
On the seventh day of the battle between the two nations, an emerging report on Thursday, June 19, revealed that Israeli jets had targeted a nuclear reactor under construction in central Iran during a wave of airstrikes.
An Israeli assault strikes Iran’s nuclear reactor under development.
The Israeli military claimed to have targeted the core seal of the Arak heavy water reactor in order to prevent its use for “nuclear weapons development,” according to a BBC report.
The struck reactor was verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to be devoid of any radioactive material.
Nuclear bomb-grade plutonium can be found in spent fuel from heavy water reactors. Yahoo News also validated the report.
Facts regarding Iran’s nuclear program Iran, which maintains that its nuclear program is completely benign, agreed to repair and redesign Arak in order to prevent it from producing weapons-grade plutonium as part of a 2015 agreement with Western powers.
The IAEA declared the following year that Iran had taken out and made “inoperable” Arak’s calandria.
