U.S. says Iran's nuclear reactor plans "deeply troubling"


  • World
  • Thursday, 06 Jun 2013

Iran's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh sorts documents before an IAEA meeting in Vienna June 5, 2013. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader

VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it was "deeply troubled" by Iran's plans to start a reactor in 2014 that could yield nuclear bomb material while failing to give U.N. inspectors necessary design information about the plant.

The comments by a U.S. envoy to a board meeting of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) highlighted deepening Western concern about the heavy water reactor that Iran is building near the town of Arak.

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