Uranium Exploration (U3O8)

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Iran's first nuclear fuel production plant opened -
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(RTTNews) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday inaugurated country's first nuclear fuel production plant, marking a major breakthrough in Tehran's controversial nuclear program.

Speaking at a ceremony held in connection with national nuclear day at the nuclear installations in the central province of Isfahan, Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had tested two new types of centrifuge with higher capacities at a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.

He later inspected the Natanz plant, where the number of the operating centrifuges has been increased from 6,000 to 7,000, as claimed by Iran's nuclear chief Gholam Reza Aghazadeh.

Aghazadeh, who also spoke at Isfahan, said Iran has reached a "new phase generation of acquiring the technology of uranium enrichment."

The Isfahan fuel plant is said to have the capacity to produce sufficient plutonium for two nuclear weapons a year.

Iran, which denies accusations that it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, insists that uranium enrichment is meant for peaceful purposes.

Wednesday, Ahmadinejad said his country is not aiming to produce nuclear bomb.

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