Iran needs 'few years' to make fuel for atom plants

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Source: Reuters

Iran needs 'few years' to make fuel for atom plants

By Fredrik Dahl
REUTERS

7:59 a.m. April 20, 2007

TEHRAN – Iran will need a few more years before it can
manufacture enough nuclear fuel to supply its planned power
plants, the country's top atomic official said in remarks
published on Friday.

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Iran says it only aims to generate electricity to allow it to
export more of its oil and gas resources.

Last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raised the stakes
in the standoff with the West by announcing Iran had begun
'industrial-scale' nuclear fuel production, marking a shift from
limited experimental enrichment it had been conducting.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of Iran's Atomic Energy
Organisation, clarified that Iran was not yet able to produce
fuel in significant amounts.

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Read more: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070420-0759-iran-nuclear-fuel.html

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Source: Agence France-Presse

Iran needs several years to produce nuclear fuel: official

Fri Apr 20, 8:12 AM ET

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran still needs several years to be in a position
to manufacture enough nuclear fuel through uranium enrichment
for industrial use, the head of Iran's atomic energy agency said
on Friday.

"Installation of centrifuges continues and each month inspectors
of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), when they come
to Tehran, will see important changes" at the Natanz nuclear plant,
said Gholamreza Aghazadeh.

"We have reached the industrial stage, but we need several years
to create an industrial unit capable of producing fuel for our power
stations," he said, quoted by the state news agency IRNA.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070420/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpolitics_070420121210

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