Other Names: Fuel Casting Plant
Location: Isfahan (Esfahan)
Subordinate to: AEOI
Size: n/a
Primary Function: Cladding production
Description:
This plant produces the zirconium cladding that is a necessary component for nuclear fuel fabrication. Zirconium and its alloy is often to used surround nuclear fuel because it is corrosion resistant, strong, and is relatively abundant. In the mid-1990s (around 1996), China agreed to furnish Iran the cladding plant in Isfahan. Authorities expected it to be completed by the end of 1999. As of May 2003, completion was close, but construction was continuing.
Key Sources:
[1] Washington Post, 30 October 1997.
[2] "China Agrees to End Nuclear Trade with Iran when Two Projects Completed," Nuclear Fuel, 3 November 1997, p. 3.
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