A strike on a live nuclear reactor could unleash radioactive leakage capable of endangering civilian populations hundreds of kilometers away, depending on the severity of the breach.

Iran’s main enrichment facility which is around 225 kilometres south of Tehran – multiple times on Friday. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that the facility was ‘seriously damaged’.

The Israeli military claims its campaign has eliminated high-value targets, including nine senior scientists, and severely damaged Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Iranian authorities confirmed damage to four critical buildings at the Isfahan uranium conversion facility,