TEHRAN – The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has announced that the document on redesigning and modernizing the Arak heavy water reactor has been signed by all the 5+1 powers and the EU foreign policy chief.

As part of the nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the 5+1 group on July 14 the U.S. and China as two members of the group plan to redesign and reconstruct the Arak research reactor so that it does not produce plutonium.

“Now, the path to implement the JCPOA [the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] has been paved,” AEOI director Ali Akbar Salehi told IRNA on Thursday.

Salehi said the document is highly credible from political, legal and international aspects.

The countries have agreed to cooperate with Iran in the process of redesigning and modernizing the Arak reactor, Salei, a nuclear physicist, said.

Under a roadmap plan signed in July, the Islamic republic agreed to allow the IAEA to conduct inspections about alleged nuclear weapons studies - officially called possible military dimensions (PMD) - by Iran in the past.

Iran’s representative to the IAEA announced on Friday that the report on the PMD will be released by December 1 or 2.

In a televised interview aired on Thursday, Salehi said that resolving the issue of PMD by mid-December is Iran’s condition to redesign the Arak reactor.

Once the report is released the JCPOA will go into effect.

NA/PA