Before the United States announced the targeting of Iran’s nuclear facilities, including its Fordow site, experts addressed concerns by saying there is little environmental threat to the surrounding region if attacked.
The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant is built underground deep within the mountains near the city of Qom, making it difficult to be targeted and destroyed.
Unlike a nuclear power plant, which typically stores radioactive waste on-site or nearby and has a reactor that generates electricity through nuclear fission, the Fordow site is only an enrichment facility.
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Here, the facility processes isotopes of uranium to potentially make them usable in a nuclear weapon. This type of uranium is considered to be far less radioactive than what it can become when used in a nuclear weapon’s reactor.
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