WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE JCPOA

highly enriched uranium for a bomb -- and store them underconstant international supervision. Iran will not use itsadvanced centrifuges to produce enriched uranium for the nextdecade. Iran will also get rid of 98 percent of its stockpileof enriched uranium.To put that in perspective, Iran currently has a stockpilethat could produce up to 10 nuclear weapons. Because of thisdeal, that stockpile will be reduced to a fraction of what wouldbe required for a single weapon. This stockpile limitation willlast for 15 years.Because of this deal, Iran will modify the core of itsreactor in Arak so that it will not produce weapons-gradeplutonium. And it has agreed to ship the spent fuel from thereactor out of the country for the lifetime of the reactor. Forat least the next 15 years, Iran will not build any new heavywaterreactors.Because of this deal, we will, for the first time, be in aposition to verify all of these commitments. That means thisdeal is not built on trust; it is built onverification. Inspectors will have 24/7 access to Iran’s keynuclear facilities.*Iran [Inspectors] will have access to Iran’s entirenuclear supply chain -- its uranium mines and mills, itsconversion facility, and its centrifuge manufacturing andstorage facilities. This ensures that Iran will not be able todivert materials from known facilities to covert ones. Some ofthese transparency measures will be in place for 25 years.Because of this deal, inspectors will also be able toaccess any suspicious location. Put simply, the organizationresponsible for the inspections, the IAEA, will have accesswhere necessary, when necessary. That arrangement ispermanent. And the IAEA has also reached an agreement with Iranto get access that it needs to complete its investigation intothe possible military dimensions of Iran’s past nuclearresearch.Finally, Iran is permanently prohibited from pursuing anuclear weapon under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, whichprovided the basis for the international community’s efforts toapply pressure on Iran.