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Iranian Bushehr Nuclear Plant Comes Online – World Survives
On 12 September Iran brought its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr online, connecting it to the country’s electrical grid. Iranian officials at the opening ceremony said that the 1,000 megawatt plant has begun generating electricity at 40 percent...
India’s Atomic Fuel Reprocessing Capacity to be Upgraded
India’s Atomic Energy Commission reported that the country’s nuclear fuel reprocessing capacity will be greatly upgraded in order to provide for the nation’s indigenously designed Fast Breeder Reactors (FBRs), which are to play an ever increasing...
Iran Rejects International Mediators Uranium Exchange Proposal
Iran has refused to take part in international discussions on a proposal to freeze its civilian nuclear power uranium enrichment program and in turn to receive enriched uranium from abroad.
U.S. Pays Russia $7.2 Billion for Separating Uranium From Warheads
Under terms of the U.S.-Russian two-decade old “megatons-to-megawatts” agreement, the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) has reimbursed the Russian Federation more than $7.2 billion for its work in separating fissile uranium for use in civilian...
Iran Activates More Equipment to Enrich Uranium
The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency has said Iran has started using a second set of 164 centrifuges linked in a cascade, or string of machines, to enrich uranium to up to 20 percent at its Natanz pilot fuel enrichment plant. Another cascade...
Iran to Enrich Its Own Uranium to 20%
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Tehran will enrich its own uranium to a level of 20% for its research reactor. “We have asked them [Western countries] for 20% enriched uranium. They could have supplied it in the framework of...
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran Rejects Threats And Urges More Talks
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Tehran rejects threats as part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare against it and calls for more talks on the nuclear issue. In a televised speech Friday night, Ahmadinejad said the West had launched...
Iran Lays Out Conditions for Uranium Deal with West
The official IRNA agency has said Iran could agree to a UN-brokered deal to send its uranium for processing in Europe if it receives enriched uranium for its research reactor first. The agency said, citing top presidential adviser Parviz Davoudi, that...
