AEOI Chief:

Iran to Unveil Nuclear Achievements on April 9

TEHRAN (defapress)- Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi announced that the AEOI is planning to unveil a number of nuclear achievements in the coming days.

News ID: 69409

Date: 27 March 2018 - 23:05

"The country's nuclear achievements are scheduled to be unveiled on National Nuclear Technology Day on April 9," Salehi said.

Salehi voiced interest in starting work on new technology and quantum technology at the Atomic Energy Organization.

"The construction of Iran’s first specialized nuclear hospital – unprecedented of its kind in West Asia – will be launched this year and take four years to be completed; the hospital will serve to treat illnesses that are most difficult to cure," he added.

One of the most outstanding and ambitious projects of Iran’s nuclear industry, which became feasible after the signing of the 2015 nuclear deal, is the construction of a major specialized nuclear hospital which is the first in the Islamic Republic and is said to be the largest of its kind in the Middle East region.

In October 2015, the plan for building the nuclear hospital for treatment of patients in need of nuclear medicines went underway under an agreement signed between the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the Ministry of Health.

On February 5, 2018, AEOI Spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said that Austrian banks have allocated €200 million worth of finance to fund equipping the Iranian nuclear hospital.

He noted the good progress made in heavy water production, calling the field as the AEOI’s first priority to be pursued in the current Iranian fiscal year.

"We have already exported our heavy water to the US and Russia, and to some lesser extent to other countries,” Kamalvandi added.

Kamalvandi pointed to the second priority of the AEOI the development of uses of radiation in medicine, and said, "We do not have any shortcomings in terms of quantity; we have reached a desirable level in the quality of using radiation in medicine, but we seek to improve the level to be fit to compete with the best of qualities in the world."