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Iran briefs JCPOA joint commission on technical decisions

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Jan 13, IRNA -- Iran briefed the Joint Commission on its plan, following the IAEA's safeguards-related nuclear material accountancy activities in the Enriched UO2 Powder Plant (EUPP).

The Joint Commission has considered and approved the plan in accordance with the parameters below, under its authority in consulting and providing guidance on implementation matters. This decision of the Joint Commission represents a common understanding of the scope of the relevant commitments of the JCPOA.

1. Low enriched uranium (LEU) hold up in the EUPP equipment, which is deemed unrecoverable in accordance with the process described below, is not part of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile as specified in the JCPOA provided that Iran does not build or operate any facility capable of recovering LEU from such hold up for 15 years starting from Implementation Day. If, in the future, Iran introduces enriched uranium into the EUPP equipment, the process described below may be used to deem future equivalent EUPP hold up in the portions specified in paragraph 2 as unrecoverable.

2. LEU hold up at the EUPP will be deemed unrecoverable once the IAEA verifies that Iran has fed depleted uranium through the portion of the EUPP equipment that converts uranyl fluoride solution to uranium dioxide and the scrap processing system until the output material from each portion is at the level of natural uranium or less. Any enriched uranium in the resulting output material does not count against Iran's enriched uranium stockpile as specified in the JCPOA, provided that Iran downblends such material to the level of natural uranium or less within the timeframe specified below.

3. The estimated amount of enriched uranium in the EUPP equipment and the output material from the process described in paragraph 2 do not count against Iran's enriched uranium stockpile as specified in the JCPOA while such process is ongoing, but for no more than 120 days from the start of the process.

4. The Joint Commission at experts' levels will engage with Iran's concerns about the enriched uranium stockpile, as defined in paragraph 56 of Annex I of the JCPOA.

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