IRAN TO MAKE 250-300 TONNES OF NUCLEAR FUEL A YEAR
PanARMENIAN.Net
30.11.2009 10:55 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Iran’s government has approved plans to build 10
new uranium enrichment plants, according to state media.
The government told the Iranian nuclear agency to begin work on five
sites, with five more to be located over the next two months. It
comes days after the UN nuclear watchdog rebuked Iran for covering
up a uranium enrichment plant.
Iran says the new plants would be of a similar size to its main
existing one at Natanz.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his cabinet that parliament had
ordered that Iran should produce 20,000 megawatts of nuclear energy
by 2020.
It therefore needed to make 250-300 tonnes of nuclear fuel a year, he
said, which would require 500,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium,
BBC reported.