Saturday, August 21, 2010

(NEWS) Iran Begins Fueling Bushehr Nuclear Reactor

"Engineers start loading plant; celebrations planned at Bushehr; Russia pledges to safeguard the site and prevent spent nuclear fuel from being shifted to a possible weapons program.

Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant on Saturday, a major milestone as Teheran forges ahead with its atomic program despite UN sanctions.

The weeklong operation to load uranium fuel into the reactor at the Bushehr power plant in southern Iran is the first step in starting up a facility the US once hoped to prevent because of fears over Teheran's nuclear ambitions."












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