Iran is taking preliminary steps to design uranium fuel with a purity of 20 percent for reactors instead of having to copy foreign designs, the country’s nuclear chief said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
“We have made such progress in nuclear science and industry that, instead of reverse-engineering and the use of designs by others, we can design new fuel ourselves,” said Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, according to the report.
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