Tehran, YJC. Iran has attained self-sufficiency in manufacturing centrifuges used for making vaccines, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Friday.
He made the remarks on the sidelines of the 18th Annual
Asian Science Park Association (ASPA) Conference in Shiraz, IRIB news reported.
The AEOI has already provided 16,000-80,000 rounds per
minute (RPM) centrifuges to the Razi Medical Center and the Pasteur Institute,
he stated.
"AEOI experts have mastered the advanced technology required
to manufacture these centrifuges, particularly the 80,000 RPM ones,” Salehi
said.
Previously, Iran used to spend 60 billion rials (about $2
million) to import human and animal vaccines produced through the use of such
centrifuges because the manufacturers would not sell the high RPM centrifuges
to Iran, he added.
The 18th Annual ASPA Conference opened in Shiraz on October
15 and closes later today (October 18).
The host organization, the Fars Science and Technology Park,
is one of the first science and technology parks in Iran and West Asia and has
participated in ASPA activities since 2011.