The attacks on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities have not increased radioactivity so far.
Early on Sunday, the United States bombed three Iranian nuclear sites after more than a week of Israeli strikes on Tehran’s military and nuclear sites, stoking concerns about radiation leaks and contamination in Iran and neighbouring countries in the region.
US President Donald Trump said the US strikes “obliterated” key nuclear enrichment facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. So far, no increase in radiation levels has been detected outside the targeted sites.
But the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has warned of chemical contamination inside these facilities. And experts have said that any attack on Iran’s only operating nuclear power plant, Bushehr, could lead to a major radiation crisis.
Here is what we know about the potential of radiation risk and contamination in Iran and the region:
