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Internet Edition. April 19, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM

Iran progress on atom centrifuges slow: IAEA

Reuters, Berlin

Iran's progress in developing uranium enrichment is slow and recent additions to its nuclear fuel production complex have only been older-model centrifuges, the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog chief said on Thursday.

Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iran had between 3,300 and 3,400 centrifuges of the 1970s vintage P-1 type operational in the Natanz enrichment hall, up from 3,000 at the end of last year.

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