{"id":54415,"date":"2024-05-11T20:47:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=54415"},"modified":"2024-05-11T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:17:38","slug":"iran-producing-top-quality-heavy-water-nuclear-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/54415\/iran-producing-top-quality-heavy-water-nuclear-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran producing top-quality heavy water: Nuclear chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The quality of the heavy water produced in Iran is so high that it is ranked first in the world, Eslami said during a visit to the city of Qom on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few countries are capable of producing heavy water, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The official noted that Iran uses heavy water and its derivatives for research and development in the pharmaceutical industry and other sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy water and its derivatives are widely used in developing new medications and in manufacturing newborn screening kits in demand in the medical sector, Eslami added.<\/p>\n<p>The AEOI chief also highlighted Iran\u2019s progress in producing radiopharmaceuticals, which benefit more than one million people each year.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the nuclear sector has also assisted various domestic industries such as the petrochemical, steel, wood, paper, and oil industries by commercializing nuclear instrumentation.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, Iran unveiled plans to develop new homegrown radiopharmaceuticals on the basis of heavy water.<\/p>\n<p>The AEOI launched a second phase of its deuterium production unit in the Arak Heavy Water Reactor Facility in central Iran in April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>MP\/TSN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quality of the heavy water produced in Iran is so high that it is ranked first in the world, Eslami said during a visit to the city of Qom on Friday. Only a few countries are capable of producing heavy water, he added. The official noted that Iran uses heavy water and its derivatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7110,7129,7102,7105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-politic-en","category-school-university-howzeh-en","category-society-en","category-technology-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}