World IN BRIEF : IRAN : Regime Vows to Send Spent Fuel to Russia
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Spent fuel from Iran’s Russian-made reactors, potential raw material for nuclear bombs, will be returned to Russia, an Iranian nuclear official said. “We don’t have any use for it,” Mohammed Sadegh Ayatollahi said of the plutonium-laden byproduct of nuclear power production. The transfer would meet one of Washington’s objections to Moscow’s $800-million deal to complete an Iranian nuclear power plant. The U.S. government contends that Iran harbors secret intentions to produce nuclear weapons.
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