Iran produces 70 kg high-grade enriched uranium
October 18th, 2011 - 12:49 am ICT by IANSTehran, Oct 17 (IANS) Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Monday that Iran has so far produced nearly 70 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium.
Iran should convert 20 percent enriched uranium into fuel plates to feed Tehran research reactor, which produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment, Salehi was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency, Xinhua reported.
He said that Iran will start to produce plates of nuclear fuel for the Tehran research reactor in five months.
Iran has constructed a plant at the Isfahan nuclear facility for manufacturing nuclear fuel plates, according to Mehr.
In June, Iran’s permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, said that Iran produced over 50 kg 20 percent enriched uranium till then.
Talking to Xinhua on the sidelines of an international nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran, Soltanieh said: “We need 120 kg enrichment up to 20 percent … for the Tehran reactor.”
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