Iran can produce n-fuel for vessels, submarines: Official
July 23rd, 2012 - 9:50 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, July 23 (IANS) Iran has the know-how to produce nuclear fuel for submarines and commercial ships, a top official has said."We have the capability to design nuclear fuel for ... Read more...
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Iran arrests suspects over n-scientists’ murders
June 15th, 2012 - 9:33 am ICT by IANS
Tehran, June 15 (IANS) Iran's intelligence ministry has announced the capture of a number of prime suspects in the killings of two of the country's nuclear scientists.The ministry said the ... Read more...
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Iran n-plant supplies 940 MW electricity
April 30th, 2012 - 9:58 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, April 30 (IANS) Iran's national grid Monday received 940 megawatts of electricity from the country's Bushehr nuclear power plant.The supply comes after several tests conducted at Bushehr plant, the ... Read more...
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‘Iran will not stop high-grade uranium enrichment’
April 9th, 2012 - 12:45 am ICT by IANS
Tehran, April 8 (IANS) Iran will not stop high-grade uranium enrichment and it will also not close down the Fordo nuclear site, the country's nuclear chief told ISNA news agency ... Read more...
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Iran willing to work with Russia on more power plants
March 26th, 2012 - 12:38 am ICT by IANS
Tehran, March 25 (IANS) Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) head Fereidoon Abbasi said his country is willing to work with Russia on more nuclear power plants, reports said Sunday."Since ... Read more...
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IAEA team in Tehran for talks
February 20th, 2012 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Feb 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A high-level delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Tehran Monday for talks on nuclear issues.The five-member delegation is led by IAEA ... Read more...
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Iran starts enriching uranium to 20 percent
January 10th, 2012 - 7:44 am ICT by IANS
Moscow/Washington, Jan 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that Iran has started enriching uranium to the 20-percent level, which can easily be turned into fissile ... Read more...
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Iran starts uranium enrichment at new n-plant
January 9th, 2012 - 12:51 am ICT by IANS
Tehran, Jan 8 (IANS) Iran has begun enriching uranium at its new nuclear plant near the Qom city, Xinhua reported Sunday.The Fordo enrichment facility will start operating soon, the Kayhan ... Read more...
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Iran’s Bushehr plant to produce 1,000 MW electricity
December 21st, 2011 - 10:42 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Dec 21 (IANS) Iran's Energy Minister Majid Namjou Wednesday said its Bushehr nuclear power plant will produce 1,000 MW of electricity from March next year.He said the Bushehr plant ... Read more...
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Tests conducted on Iran’s n-plant turbines
August 24th, 2011 - 11:06 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Aug 24 (IANS) The turbines of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant were successfully tested, the country's atomic energy chief said Wednesday.The turbines were successfully tested Tuesday at the speed ... Read more...
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Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant to join national grid in April
January 29th, 2011 - 1:37 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Jan 29 (ANI): Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) chief Ali Akbar Salehi has said the country's Bushehr nuclear power plant is to join the national power grid in early April.Salehi ... Read more...
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Iran to unveil new nuclear achievements
January 15th, 2011 - 12:45 am ICT by IANS
Tehran, Jan 14 (IANS) Iran will display two new nuclear products with medical applications at the Arak heavy water reactor Saturday, an official said. According to Mehr news agency, the ceremony will ... Read more...
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Iran says can produce nuclear fuel
January 8th, 2011 - 11:13 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Jan 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Tehran is capable of making its own nuclear fuel plates and rods, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said Saturday."We have built an advanced ... Read more...
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Iranian foreign minister sacked
December 13th, 2010 - 9:19 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Dec 13 (IANS) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Monday sacked Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, reports Xinhua.Mottaki was replaced by the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali-Akbar Salehi, who is ... Read more...
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Iran fires foreign minister, appoints top nuclear chief
December 13th, 2010 - 9:07 pm ICT by BNO News
TEHRAN (BNO NEWS) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday fired the country's foreign minister and appointed his top nuclear official as caretaker for the position, his office said.The presidential office said ... Read more...
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Iran claims production of nuke yellowcake
December 6th, 2010 - 3:22 pm ICT by ANI
Tehran, Dec 6 (ANI): Iran has confirmed that it has become self-sufficient in production of nuclear yellowcake.Yellowcake is the final product of the milling of uranium ore. It contains about 80 % ... Read more...
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Iran launches nuclear fusion research
July 24th, 2010 - 8:29 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, July 24 (IANS) Iran Saturday launched a fusion research programme that will help build its first homemade nuclear reactor to generate electricity, the state-run Press TV reported.
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CIA paid Iranian scientist $5 mn: Report (Lead)
July 15th, 2010 - 2:15 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 15 (DPA) The Iranian nuclear scientist, who returned to Iran early Thursday after claiming he had been abducted by the US, received more than $5 million from the CIA for ... Read more...
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Iran bans two IAEA inspectors
June 21st, 2010 - 5:33 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 21 (ANI): Iran has banned two UN nuclear inspectors from entering the country, risking further anger from the West over its nuclear program. The Telegraph quoted Ali Akbar Salehi, head ... Read more...
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Iran may be planning to build more nuke sites: IAEA
March 28th, 2010 - 1:41 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar. 28 (ANI): International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors and Western intelligence agencies have expressed suspicion about constructing more nuclear enrichment sites.Six months after the surfacing of a secret atomic ... Read more...
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Iran starts 20-percent uranium enrichment process
February 10th, 2010 - 12:37 am ICT by IANS
Tehran/Vienna, Feb 9 (DPA) Iran Tuesday started the 20-percent uranium enrichment process, the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organization said.
"The process started in the research hall in the Natanz plant and ... Read more...
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Iran to increase enriched uranium production by 20 percent
February 9th, 2010 - 4:31 am ICT by BNO News
VIENNA, AUSTRIA (BNO NEWS) – Iran on Monday informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it would increase its enriched uranium production to up to 20 percent, compacting further international tension.The ... Read more...
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Iran tested advanced Nuclear Warhead
November 9th, 2009 - 9:26 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Tehran, Nov 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The U.N. nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iran’s nuclear scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian reported in ... Read more...
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Iran nuke site said to be inside a mountain
September 30th, 2009 - 1:57 pm ICT by ANI
Tehran, Sep.30 (ANI): Iranian Vice President and head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi has revealed that one of its uranium enrichment facilities is inside a mountain ... Read more...
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Iran’s new uranium enrichment plant to be operational soon: Report
September 26th, 2009 - 5:39 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Sep 26 (Xinhua) Iran's new nuclear fuel enrichment plant will be operational soon, head of the office of Iran's supreme leader Mohammad Mohammadi-Golpayegani said Saturday, according to a media report.
"This ... Read more...
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Iran to become nuclear fuel producer by 2010
April 23rd, 2009 - 7:42 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, April 23 (IANS) Iran would become a nuclear fuel-producing country by the end of its fourth five-year development plan (2005-2010), Iranian news agency IRNA reported Thursday quoting a senior official.
Mohammad Saeedi, ... Read more...
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Iran to build nuclear plants worldwide: Official
April 13th, 2009 - 2:37 pm ICT by IANS
Qom (Iran), April 13 (IANS) Iran will be among the major builders of nuclear power plants worldwide within the next ten years, a senior official said.
The Deputy Head of Iran Atomic Energy ... Read more...
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Ahmadinejad inaugurates Iran’s first nuclear fuel plant
April 9th, 2009 - 10:51 pm ICT by IANS
Isfahan (Iran), April 9 (DPA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday inaugurated the country's first nuclear fuel manufacturing plant (FMP) located near this central Iranian city.
The FMP, reportedly based solely on work by ... Read more...
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Iran, Russia discuss 10-year nuclear fuel delivery
February 26th, 2009 - 6:49 pm ICT by IANS
Bushehr, Feb 26 (IANS) Tehran and Moscow were discussing a deal under which Russia would deliver nuclear fuel to Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr for ten years, Iranian news agency ... Read more...
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Trial run of Iran’s first nuclear plant starts (Lead)
February 25th, 2009 - 9:27 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Feb 25 (IANS) The test run of Iran's first nuclear power plant started here Wednesday, Iran's Mehr news agency reported.
The test involved the use of non-nuclear material instead of enriched ... Read more...
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Iran to test its first nuclear power plant on Wednesday
February 23rd, 2009 - 3:15 pm ICT by ANI
Tehran, Feb. 23 (ANI): Iran''s first nuclear power plant is all set to undergo a critical series of tests beginning Wednesday before it starts its full-scale operation later this year, Iranian ... Read more...
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Iran says it’s willing to cooperate with IAEA (Lead)
November 20th, 2008 - 2:12 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Nov 20 (IANS) Iran has said it would pursue "constructive and comprehensive interaction" with the UN nuclear watchdog, official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. Following the release of a ... Read more...
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World powers fail to make headway in Iran’s nuclear talks
November 14th, 2008 - 5:19 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, Nov 14 (RIA Novosti) Senior officials from the Iran Six group of world powers have said after a meeting in France that little progress had been made over Iran's controversial nuclear ... Read more...
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IAEA to table new report on Iran Monday
September 12th, 2008 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Sep 12 (IANS) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will present a new report on Iran's controversial nuclear programme to its board of governors in Vienna Monday, the official IRNA News ... Read more...
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Russia’s nuclear chief to visit Iran Sunday
August 30th, 2008 - 10:23 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Aug 30 (DPA) Russia's nuclear power chief will visit Iran to prepare the nuclear fuel operation of the joint Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, ISNA news agency reported Saturday.Sergei ... Read more...
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