Israel attacked Iran’s Khandab heavy water reactor in Arak, in addition to the uranium enrichment facility at Ardakan, on Friday, the IDF confirmed.
Earlier Iranian state media reviews famous that the enrichment facility produced yellowcake, a concentrated uranium powder used within the early phases of nuclear gas manufacturing.
A authorities official instructed the Islamic Republic’s semi-official Fars Information Company, which is linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), that no casualties occured within the reported assault on the heavy water reactor, and that there isn’t any hazard to the native inhabitants. Fars reported that the ability was struck twice.
“Heavy water is a novel materials used to function nuclear reactors, such because the inactive Arak reactor, which was initially designed to have weapons-grade plutonium manufacturing capabilities,” the IDF mentioned. “These supplies will also be used as a neutron supply for nuclear weapons.”
The army added that the ability, which was hit in the course of the June 2025 battle between Israel and Iran, was additionally a “vital financial asset” for the Iranian regime and generated tens of tens of millions of {dollars} for the Iranian Atomic Power Group.
In line with the army, Iran labored to rebuild the ability after it was struck 9 months in the past. It added that the Islamic Republic intentionally averted a mandate to transform the reactor in order that it might not be able to producing weapons-grade plutonium.
Assaults observe name for evacuation
The assault comes after the IDF known as for residents of the northwestern Iranian metropolis of Arak to evacuate forward of imminent strikes on close by regime army infrastructure.
The heavy water reactor is situated a brief distance northwest of the municipality of Arak.
The decision for evacuation was posted on the IDF’s Persian-language X/Twitter account, and included graphics illustrating the focused areas and evacuation routes.
The submit additional known as for these within the close by Khairabad industrial zone to evacuate.
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