By Bethany Bell
BBC News, Vienna
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency are travelling to Iran ahead of a visit to a newly revealed nuclear site.
The inspection on Sunday will be the first time international monitors will have been allowed access to the plant, near the Iranian city of Qom.
News of the second enrichment plant has heightened western fears that Iran may be trying to develop nuclear weapons.
Tehran insists that all its atomic work is peaceful.
Earlier this month it agreed to allow UN inspectors into the facility.
Back then head of the IAEA, Mohammed El Baradei said the inspection, along with a proposal to send much of Iran's enriched uranium abroad, were signs that relations with Iran were moving from confrontation to cooperation.
But Iran has so far delayed its response to the plan to send its nuclear fuel to Russia for further refinement.
The first results of the UN inspectors' work are expected next month.
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