Israeli strikes on Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan pose little regional radiation risk but could release plumes of toxic chemicals, experts said.

Fordo is Iran’s second nuclear enrichment facility after Natanz, its main facility, which already has been targeted by Israeli airstrikes. The IAEA said Tuesday it believes the strikes have had “direct impacts” on the facility’s underground centrifuge halls.

Israel strikes Iran's nuclear facilities, but an expert cautions that the heavily protected Fordow site remains a dangerous threat that only U.S. military capabilities can neutralize.

An Israeli official said that "there's never a 100 percent guarantee," but "a nuclear disaster" should "not happen."

Military vessels have relied on atomic energy for decades, but now commercial shipbuilders are attempting to tap the technology.

President Donald Trump disputed the assessment from his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and the intelligence community, stating his belief that Iran was “very close” to developing a nuclear weapon prior to Israel’s attack on its facilities last week.

The Senate Finance Committee’s language would take a sledgehammer to some parts of the renewable-friendly Inflation Reduction Act while sparing others.

Tehran faces the prospect of having to submit to a tougher negotiation on its nuclear program as its only way out of its confrontation with Israel.