Part of the Nuclear Fuel Production and Procurement Company of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI); involved in uranium enrichment-related activities.

Established in the mid-1970s with help from France to provide training, technical, and scientific support for the Bushehr reactor project; served as the location of an undeclared laboratory and bench scale uranium conversion experiments between 1981 and 1993.

Also houses dismantled equipment, including three glove boxes, used in plutonium separation experiments between 1988 and 1992 at the Tehran Nuclear Research Center (TNRC).

Reportedly slated to receive hundreds of tons of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (AHF or hydrofluoric acid), used as feeder material for refining uranium yellowcake into gaseous form, from the China Nuclear Energy Industrial Corporation (CNEIC), but delivery was blocked by U.S. diplomatic efforts.

Facilities and sub-units include:

• Enriched UO2 Powder Plant (EUPP): for the conversion of depleted and enriched UF6 into UO2 powder
• Fuel Fabrication Laboratory (FFL)
• Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP): produces fuel assemblies for nuclear power and research reactors
• Fuel Plate Fabrication Plant
• Graphite Sub-Critical Reactor (GSCR - shut down)
• Heavy Water Zero Power Reactor (HWZPR), (installed with the supervision of Chinese experts) 30-kilowatt Miniature Neutron Source Reactor for the production of short lived radioisotopes, (reportedly Chinese-supplied)
• Light Water Sub-Critical Reactor (LWSCR)
• Uranium Chemistry Laboratory (UCL - shut down)
• Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF): produces uranium compounds needed for fuel cycle activities, including natural UF6, natural UO2, and UF4
• Zirconium Production Plant (ZPP)

Pishgam Energy Industries Development Co. (PEI), the AEOI's main engineering consulting company, contributed to the ZPP, UCF and FMP.

Departments include:

• Chemistry Department: laboratory equipment includes spectrophotometer, atomic absorption equipment and atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP); projects include production of UO2 from concentrated U3O8, production of hydrogen fluoride and production of tri-butyl phosphate
• Electronics and Control Department: design and manufacturing of special electronic, instrumentation and control equipment, printed circuit boards (PCBs), inductors, and transformers
• Health Physics and Waste Management Department: activities include consultation in designing radioactive laboratories, radiation dosimetry, shielding calculation of radioactive laboratories, waste management activities and environmental analysis
• Metallurgical Engineering and Fuel Department: research on life prediction and management in nuclear power plants, corrosion and corrosion protection in the nuclear fuel cycle, thermal stability of uranium dioxide (UO2) pellets, experimental production of nuclear fuel for VVER reactors, production of safety and control rods for zero power reactors; equipped with an optical microscope, a scanning electronic microscope, vacuum furnaces, controlled atmosphere furnaces, static and dynamic autoclaves, sintering furnaces, and milling and grinding machines; oversees the Fuel Fabrication Laboratories (FFL)
• Miniature Reactor Department: houses Miniature Neutron Source Reactor, which is used for neutron activation analysis and the production of short-lived radioisotopes
• Nuclear Engineering Department: laboratories provide support for nuclear engineering

Personnel have included Javad Rahiqi and Amir Rahimi.

Sanctions

Designated by the U.N. Security Council on March 24, 2007, pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), as an entity involved in or supporting Iran's proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities or development of nuclear weapon delivery systems; with some exceptions, the designation requires states to freeze assets that are owned or controlled by the entity, directly or indirectly, and to ensure that assets are not made available to the entity.

Previously removed from the U.N. list on January 16, 2016, pursuant to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA); returned to the U.N. list on September 28, 2025, as part of the reimposition of sanctions on Iran.

Listed by the European Union on April 21, 2007, as an entity linked to Iran's proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities or Iran's development of nuclear weapon delivery systems; with some exceptions, E.U. member states must freeze assets owned or controlled by the entity, directly or indirectly, and prevent assets from being made available to it.

Previously removed from the E.U. list on January 16, 2016, pursuant to the JCPOA; returned to the E.U. list on September 29, 2025, as part of the reimposition of U.N. sanctions on Iran.

Added on August 12, 2008, to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), pursuant to Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and their delivery systems; removed from the SDN list on January 16, 2016, pursuant to the JCPOA.

Sanctioned by the governments of Australia, Japan, and the United Kingdom, restricting business and financial transactions with the entity and/or freezing its assets in those countries.

Listed by the British government in 2015 as an entity of potential concern for WMD-related procurement, but removed in 2017 after the U.K. withdrew its Iran list.