BLACKEAGLE
SENIOR MEMBER
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NUCLEAR
A. ENRICHMENT, ENRICHMENT R&D, STOCKPILES
1. Iran's long term plan includes certain agreed limitations on all uranium
enrichment and uranium enrichment-related activities including certain
limitations on specific research and development (R&D) activities for the first 8
years, to be followed by gradual evolution, at a reasonable pace, to the next
stage of its enrichment activities for exclusively peaceful purposes, as described
in Annex I. Iran will abide by its voluntary commitments, as expressed in its
own long-term enrichment and enrichment R&D plan to be submitted as part of
the initial declaration for the Additional Protocol to Iran’s Safeguards
Agreement.
2. Iran will begin phasing out its IR-1 centrifuges in 10 years. During this period,
Iran will keep its enrichment capacity at Natanz at up to a total installed
uranium enrichment capacity of 5060 IR-1 centrifuges. Excess centrifuges and
enrichment-related infrastructure at Natanz will be stored under IAEA
continuous monitoring, as specified in Annex I.
3. Iran will continue to conduct enrichment R&D in a manner that does not
accumulate enriched uranium. Iran's enrichment R&D with uranium for 10 years
will only include IR-4, IR-5, IR-6 and IR-8 centrifuges as laid out in Annex I, and
Iran will not engage in other isotope separation technologies for enrichment of
uranium as specified in Annex I. Iran will continue testing IR-6 and IR-8
centrifuges, and will commence testing of up to 30 IR-6 and IR-8 centrifuges
after eight and a half years, as detailed in Annex I.
4. As Iran will be phasing out its IR-1 centrifuges, it will not manufacture or
assemble other centrifuges, except as provided for in Annex I, and will replace
failed centrifuges with centrifuges of the same type. Iran will manufacture
advanced centrifuge machines only for the purposes specified in this JCPOA.
From the end of the eighth year, and as described in Annex I, Iran will start to
manufacture agreed numbers of IR-6 and IR-8 centrifuge machines without
rotors and will store all of the manufactured machines at Natanz, under IAEA
continuous monitoring until they are needed under Iran's long-term enrichment
and enrichment R&D plan.
5. Based on its long-term plan, for 15 years, Iran will carry out its uranium
enrichment-related activities, including safeguarded R&D exclusively in the
Natanz Enrichment facility, keep its level of uranium enrichment at up to 3.67%,
and, at Fordow, refrain from any uranium enrichment and uranium enrichment
R&D and from keeping any nuclear material.
6. Iran will convert the Fordow facility into a nuclear, physics and technology
centre. International collaboration including in the form of scientific joint
partnerships will be established in agreed areas of research. 1044 IR-1
centrifuges in six cascades will remain in one wing at Fordow. Two of these
cascades will spin without uranium and will be transitioned, including through
appropriate infrastructure modification, for stable isotope production. The other
four cascades with all associated infrastructure will remain idle. All other
centrifuges and enrichment-related infrastructure will be removed and stored
under IAEA continuous monitoring as specified in Annex I.
7. During the 15 year period, and as Iran gradually moves to meet international
qualification standards for nuclear fuel produced in Iran, it will keep its uranium
stockpile under 300 kg of up to 3.67% enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6) or
the equivalent in other chemical forms. The excess quantities are to be sold
based on international prices and delivered to the international buyer in return
for natural uranium delivered to Iran, or are to be down-blended to natural
uranium level. Enriched uranium in fabricated fuel assemblies from Russia or
other sources for use in Iran's nuclear reactors will not be counted against the
above stated 300 kg UF6 stockpile, if the criteria set out in Annex I are met with
regard to other sources. The Joint Commission will support assistance to Iran,
including through IAEA technical cooperation as appropriate, in meeting
international qualification standards for nuclear fuel produced in Iran. All
remaining uranium oxide enriched to between 5% and 20% will be fabricated
into fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR). Any additional fuel needed for
the TRR will be made available to Iran at international market prices.
B. ARAK, HEAVY WATER, REPROCESSING
8. Iran will redesign and rebuild a modernised heavy water research reactor in
Arak, based on an agreed conceptual design, using fuel enriched up to 3.67 %, in
a form of an international partnership which will certify the final design. The
reactor will support peaceful nuclear research and radioisotope production for
medical and industrial purposes. The redesigned and rebuilt Arak reactor will
not produce weapons grade plutonium. Except for the first core load, all of the
activities for redesigning and manufacturing of the fuel assemblies for the
redesigned reactor will be carried out in Iran. All spent fuel from Arak will be
shipped out of Iran for the lifetime of the reactor. This international partnership
will include participating E3/EU+3 parties, Iran and such other countries as may
be mutually determined. Iran will take the leadership role as the owner and as
the project manager and the E3/EU+3 and Iran will, before Implementation Day,
conclude an official document which would define the responsibilities assumed
by the E3/EU+3 participants.
9. Iran plans to keep pace with the trend of international technological
advancement in relying on light water for its future power and research reactors
with enhanced international cooperation, including assurance of supply of
necessary fuel.
10. There will be no additional heavy water reactors or accumulation of heavy
water in Iran for 15 years. All excess heavy water will be made available for
export to the international market.
11. Iran intends to ship out all spent fuel for all future and present power and
research nuclear reactors, for further treatment or disposition as provided for in
relevant contracts to be duly concluded with the recipient party.
12. For 15 years Iran will not, and does not intend to thereafter, engage in any
spent fuel reprocessing or construction of a facility capable of spent fuel
reprocessing, or reprocessing R&D activities leading to a spent fuel
reprocessing capability, with the sole exception of separation activities aimed
exclusively at the production of medical and industrial radio-isotopes from
irradiated enriched uranium targets.
C. TRANSPARENCY AND CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES
13. Consistent with the respective roles of the President and Majlis (Parliament),
Iran will provisionally apply the Additional Protocol to its Comprehensive
Safeguards Agreement in accordance with Article 17(b) of the Additional
Protocol, proceed with its ratification within the timeframe as detailed in Annex
V and fully implement the modified Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary Arrangements to
its Safeguards Agreement.
14. Iran will fully implement the "Roadmap for Clarification of Past and Present
Outstanding Issues" agreed with the IAEA, containing arrangements to address
past and present issues of concern relating to its nuclear programme as raised
in the annex to the IAEA report of 8 November 2011 (GOV/2011/65). Full
implementation of activities undertaken under the Roadmap by Iran will be
completed by 15 October 2015, and subsequently the Director General will
provide by 15 December 2015 the final assessment on the resolution of all past
and present outstanding issues to the Board of Governors, and the E3+3, in their
capacity as members of the Board of Governors, will submit a resolution to the
Board of Governors for taking necessary action, with a view to closing the issue,
without prejudice to the competence of the Board of Governors.
15. Iran will allow the IAEA to monitor the implementation of the voluntary
measures for their respective durations, as well as to implement transparency
measures, as set out in this JCPOA and its Annexes. These measures include: a
long-term IAEA presence in Iran; IAEA monitoring of uranium ore concentrate
produced by Iran from all uranium ore concentrate plants for 25 years;
containment and surveillance of centrifuge rotors and bellows for 20 years; use
of IAEA approved and certified modern technologies including on-line
enrichment measurement and electronic seals; and a reliable mechanism to
ensure speedy resolution of IAEA access concerns for 15 years, as defined in
Annex I.
16. Iran will not engage in activities, including at the R&D level, that could
contribute to the development of a nuclear explosive device, including uranium
or plutonium metallurgy activities, as specified in Annex I.
17. Iran will cooperate and act in accordance with the procurement channel in this
JCPOA, as detailed in Annex IV, endorsed by the UN Security Council resolution.
NUCLEAR
A. ENRICHMENT, ENRICHMENT R&D, STOCKPILES
1. Iran's long term plan includes certain agreed limitations on all uranium
enrichment and uranium enrichment-related activities including certain
limitations on specific research and development (R&D) activities for the first 8
years, to be followed by gradual evolution, at a reasonable pace, to the next
stage of its enrichment activities for exclusively peaceful purposes, as described
in Annex I. Iran will abide by its voluntary commitments, as expressed in its
own long-term enrichment and enrichment R&D plan to be submitted as part of
the initial declaration for the Additional Protocol to Iran’s Safeguards
Agreement.
2. Iran will begin phasing out its IR-1 centrifuges in 10 years. During this period,
Iran will keep its enrichment capacity at Natanz at up to a total installed
uranium enrichment capacity of 5060 IR-1 centrifuges. Excess centrifuges and
enrichment-related infrastructure at Natanz will be stored under IAEA
continuous monitoring, as specified in Annex I.
3. Iran will continue to conduct enrichment R&D in a manner that does not
accumulate enriched uranium. Iran's enrichment R&D with uranium for 10 years
will only include IR-4, IR-5, IR-6 and IR-8 centrifuges as laid out in Annex I, and
Iran will not engage in other isotope separation technologies for enrichment of
uranium as specified in Annex I. Iran will continue testing IR-6 and IR-8
centrifuges, and will commence testing of up to 30 IR-6 and IR-8 centrifuges
after eight and a half years, as detailed in Annex I.
4. As Iran will be phasing out its IR-1 centrifuges, it will not manufacture or
assemble other centrifuges, except as provided for in Annex I, and will replace
failed centrifuges with centrifuges of the same type. Iran will manufacture
advanced centrifuge machines only for the purposes specified in this JCPOA.
From the end of the eighth year, and as described in Annex I, Iran will start to
manufacture agreed numbers of IR-6 and IR-8 centrifuge machines without
rotors and will store all of the manufactured machines at Natanz, under IAEA
continuous monitoring until they are needed under Iran's long-term enrichment
and enrichment R&D plan.
5. Based on its long-term plan, for 15 years, Iran will carry out its uranium
enrichment-related activities, including safeguarded R&D exclusively in the
Natanz Enrichment facility, keep its level of uranium enrichment at up to 3.67%,
and, at Fordow, refrain from any uranium enrichment and uranium enrichment
R&D and from keeping any nuclear material.
6. Iran will convert the Fordow facility into a nuclear, physics and technology
centre. International collaboration including in the form of scientific joint
partnerships will be established in agreed areas of research. 1044 IR-1
centrifuges in six cascades will remain in one wing at Fordow. Two of these
cascades will spin without uranium and will be transitioned, including through
appropriate infrastructure modification, for stable isotope production. The other
four cascades with all associated infrastructure will remain idle. All other
centrifuges and enrichment-related infrastructure will be removed and stored
under IAEA continuous monitoring as specified in Annex I.
7. During the 15 year period, and as Iran gradually moves to meet international
qualification standards for nuclear fuel produced in Iran, it will keep its uranium
stockpile under 300 kg of up to 3.67% enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6) or
the equivalent in other chemical forms. The excess quantities are to be sold
based on international prices and delivered to the international buyer in return
for natural uranium delivered to Iran, or are to be down-blended to natural
uranium level. Enriched uranium in fabricated fuel assemblies from Russia or
other sources for use in Iran's nuclear reactors will not be counted against the
above stated 300 kg UF6 stockpile, if the criteria set out in Annex I are met with
regard to other sources. The Joint Commission will support assistance to Iran,
including through IAEA technical cooperation as appropriate, in meeting
international qualification standards for nuclear fuel produced in Iran. All
remaining uranium oxide enriched to between 5% and 20% will be fabricated
into fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR). Any additional fuel needed for
the TRR will be made available to Iran at international market prices.
B. ARAK, HEAVY WATER, REPROCESSING
8. Iran will redesign and rebuild a modernised heavy water research reactor in
Arak, based on an agreed conceptual design, using fuel enriched up to 3.67 %, in
a form of an international partnership which will certify the final design. The
reactor will support peaceful nuclear research and radioisotope production for
medical and industrial purposes. The redesigned and rebuilt Arak reactor will
not produce weapons grade plutonium. Except for the first core load, all of the
activities for redesigning and manufacturing of the fuel assemblies for the
redesigned reactor will be carried out in Iran. All spent fuel from Arak will be
shipped out of Iran for the lifetime of the reactor. This international partnership
will include participating E3/EU+3 parties, Iran and such other countries as may
be mutually determined. Iran will take the leadership role as the owner and as
the project manager and the E3/EU+3 and Iran will, before Implementation Day,
conclude an official document which would define the responsibilities assumed
by the E3/EU+3 participants.
9. Iran plans to keep pace with the trend of international technological
advancement in relying on light water for its future power and research reactors
with enhanced international cooperation, including assurance of supply of
necessary fuel.
10. There will be no additional heavy water reactors or accumulation of heavy
water in Iran for 15 years. All excess heavy water will be made available for
export to the international market.
11. Iran intends to ship out all spent fuel for all future and present power and
research nuclear reactors, for further treatment or disposition as provided for in
relevant contracts to be duly concluded with the recipient party.
12. For 15 years Iran will not, and does not intend to thereafter, engage in any
spent fuel reprocessing or construction of a facility capable of spent fuel
reprocessing, or reprocessing R&D activities leading to a spent fuel
reprocessing capability, with the sole exception of separation activities aimed
exclusively at the production of medical and industrial radio-isotopes from
irradiated enriched uranium targets.
C. TRANSPARENCY AND CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES
13. Consistent with the respective roles of the President and Majlis (Parliament),
Iran will provisionally apply the Additional Protocol to its Comprehensive
Safeguards Agreement in accordance with Article 17(b) of the Additional
Protocol, proceed with its ratification within the timeframe as detailed in Annex
V and fully implement the modified Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary Arrangements to
its Safeguards Agreement.
14. Iran will fully implement the "Roadmap for Clarification of Past and Present
Outstanding Issues" agreed with the IAEA, containing arrangements to address
past and present issues of concern relating to its nuclear programme as raised
in the annex to the IAEA report of 8 November 2011 (GOV/2011/65). Full
implementation of activities undertaken under the Roadmap by Iran will be
completed by 15 October 2015, and subsequently the Director General will
provide by 15 December 2015 the final assessment on the resolution of all past
and present outstanding issues to the Board of Governors, and the E3+3, in their
capacity as members of the Board of Governors, will submit a resolution to the
Board of Governors for taking necessary action, with a view to closing the issue,
without prejudice to the competence of the Board of Governors.
15. Iran will allow the IAEA to monitor the implementation of the voluntary
measures for their respective durations, as well as to implement transparency
measures, as set out in this JCPOA and its Annexes. These measures include: a
long-term IAEA presence in Iran; IAEA monitoring of uranium ore concentrate
produced by Iran from all uranium ore concentrate plants for 25 years;
containment and surveillance of centrifuge rotors and bellows for 20 years; use
of IAEA approved and certified modern technologies including on-line
enrichment measurement and electronic seals; and a reliable mechanism to
ensure speedy resolution of IAEA access concerns for 15 years, as defined in
Annex I.
16. Iran will not engage in activities, including at the R&D level, that could
contribute to the development of a nuclear explosive device, including uranium
or plutonium metallurgy activities, as specified in Annex I.
17. Iran will cooperate and act in accordance with the procurement channel in this
JCPOA, as detailed in Annex IV, endorsed by the UN Security Council resolution.