Israel Attacks Iranian Nuclear Facility

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-891437

Israel strikes Iranian nuclear development facilities

The IDF attack on the heavy water reactor comes after the military called for residents of nearby Arak to evacuate ahead of imminent strikes on regime military infrastructure.

Israel attacked Iran’s Khandab heavy water reactor in Arak, as well as the uranium enrichment facility at Ardakan, the IDF confirmed.

The enrichment facility produced yellowcake, a concentrated uranium powder used in the early stages of nuclear fuel production.

Later a missile struck the Bushehr nuclear plant in Iran.

"Heavy water is a unique material used to operate nuclear reactors, such as the Arak reactor, which was originally designed to have weapons-grade plutonium production capabilities," the IDF said. "These materials can also be used as a neutron source for nuclear weapons."

The facility was also a "significant economic asset" for the Iranian regime and generated tens of millions of dollars for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization.

The Islamic Republic deliberately avoided a mandate to convert the reactor so that it would not be capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium.

The attack came after the IDF had called for residents of the northwestern Iranian city of Arak to evacuate ahead of imminent strikes on nearby regime military infrastructure.

The heavy water reactor is located a short distance northwest of the municipality of Arak.

The call for evacuation was posted on the IDF's Persian-language X/Twitter account, and included graphics illustrating the targeted areas and evacuation routes.

The post further called for those in the nearby Khairabad industrial zone to evacuate.

Soon thereafter, the IDF announced that it had begun simultaneous attacks on regime infrastructure in three areas of Iran.

Ardakan is a city in Iran's Yazd province, a central site for producing missiles and sea mines.

"This plant is the only one of its kind in Iran, where raw materials mined from the earth undergo mechanical and chemical processing so that they can later be used as raw materials for uranium enrichment," the IDF said after the attack, adding "The strikes targeted the main infrastructure used for the unique production processes."

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