DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Much of the focus on Iran's nuclear program has been on Tehran's enrichment of uranium, but experts also keep a close watch on the Islamic Republic's Arak heavy ...

The reactors can be used for scientific purposes, but plutonium is a byproduct of the process. Before the centrifuge technology that enriches uranium to levels high enough for use in weapons ...

Iran's Arak heavy water reactor, hit by an Israeli airstrike, was part of Tehran's nuclear deal. By JON GAMBRELL. ... could produce plutonium, which can be used to make an atomic bomb.

The Israeli military says it targeted the reactor's core seal to stop it being used for "nuclear weapons development".

Iran's Arak heavy water reactor, hit by an Israeli airstrike, ... (155 miles) southwest of Tehran, could produce plutonium, which can be used to make an atomic bomb.

Iraq’s nuclear programme went underground after Israel destroyed its reactor just outside Baghdad more than four decades ago.