Iran says to start work on 20 percent nuclear fuel
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday told Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization to start work on producing nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor, further raising the stakes in a dispute with the West.
Ahmadinejad’s announcement is likely to irritate Western powers which want Iran to send most of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad in return for higher-refined fuel for the Tehran reactor producing medical isotopes.
via Iran says to start work on 20 percent nuclear fuel | Reuters.
