Iran to place nuclear plate in reactor within month, Times says

Bloomberg: Iran said it will install its first 20 percent nuclear fuel plates at the Tehran Research Reactor within a month, Tehran Times reported, citing Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.
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Iran said it will install its first 20 percent nuclear fuel plates at the Tehran Research Reactor within a month, Tehran Times reported, citing Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.

Western nations “did not imagine that we could achieve 20 percent enrichment and transform it into fuel plates,” Salehi was quoted by the newspaper as saying in Addis Ababa yesterday, on the sidelines of an African Union summit.

Iranian officials said the country began in 2010 processing low enriched uranium to a 20 percent purity level as it needed to secure fuel for its research reactor, which produces medical isotopes for cancer patients. Enriched uranium can fuel a reactor or, enriched to higher degrees, form the core of a bomb.