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It's Iran's only operating nuclear power plant
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With a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, Boushehar Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Iran
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has been connected to the country's power grid since 2011. Iran also has a handful of nuclear research facilities
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and sites it uses to enrich uranium. The country is now enriching uranium up to 60% fissile purity
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according to the UN watchdog. That's well above the limit authorised in the 2015 deal Iran made with six world powers
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So how did Iran get here? Back in 2015, the deal, dubbed the JCPOA, placed restrictions on Iran's nuclear work
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in return for sanctions relief. The country was only allowed up to 300 kilograms of uranium, enriched up to 3.67%
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But in 2018, Donald Trump pulled the US out of the deal and reimposed sanctions
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Iran then resumed its enrichment activities. In 2022, the IAEA announced that Tehran was enriching uranium to up to 60% at the Fordow site
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So how quickly could Iran make nuclear weapons? For use in a weapon, uranium needs to be enriched to roughly 90%
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percent. According to US officials, Iran could turn its uranium into one bomb in as little as a week
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But these officials believe it would take Tehran between a year to a year and a half to build a
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nuclear weapon. Iran has insisted that its nuclear activities are peaceful. But last year
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the head of the UN nuclear watchdog described the country's uranium enrichment as very worrisome
