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Iran installs 492 new centrifuges at nuclear facility

TEHRAN, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Iran has installed 492 new centrifuges at its sensitive Natanz nuclear facility, the official IRNA news agency reported Friday.

"Three new cascades of 164 centrifuges are installed and now operational in Natanz facility," the report quoted an unnamed official as saying.

"The centrifuges are P-1 type," the official added.

P-1 machine is an old design to produce enriched uranium, but just days ago Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country had tested a new advanced centrifuge which is "smaller" but its

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