Iran Produces 1st N. Fuel Rod Needed for Tehran Research Reactor

January 1, 2012

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Fars News Agency

Iran claims to have successfully tested a domestically produced nuclear fuel rod in the Tehran Research Reactor for the first time. The fuel rod was produced using uranium enriched to 20 percent.  Iran's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh has said that the reactor requires 120 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium.