Iran starts designing upgraded version of 20% enriched uranium fuel: Salehi

According to Salehi, preliminary steps have been taken for designing an upgraded version of 20% enriched uranium fuel, a product that is different from previous versions of the fuel and enhances the reactor’s efficiency.

The product can be used for any reactors would be constructed like Tehran Nuclear Reactor.

"Today, our experts have enough capacities to design reactor,” he said,” We have made such progress in nuclear science and industry that we are able to design new fuels instead of reverse engineering, which is a great achievement for our country”.

he nuclear chief then noted the Iranian nuclear scientists’ success at producing the raw material for the tracer FDG (fluorodeoxyglucose), which is used in PET scan, adding "the raw material for FDG is Oxygen-18, which we succeeded in producing in Arak reactor with 95% purity.”

He added once the hydrolysis stage is completed, Iran will no longer need to export Oxygen-18.

Iran’s capacity in producing nuclear equipment and facilities has reached a point that it can export its nuclear productions, Salehi added.

Source:ISNA