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Plant created to store nuclear fuel waste in Iran (UPDATE)

Nuclear Program Materials 6 February 2011 12:39 (UTC +04:00)

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Deputy head of Iran's national atomic organization Rastkhah Naser said a plant had been created  for the storage of nuclear fuel waste,  Mehr news agency reported.

Nuclear fuel waste include cesium, cobalt, iridium and other radioactive materials such as platinum that are very dangerous for environment.

He said currently the nuclear fuel waste including platinum have not been produced in Bushehr nuclear power plant, but it will be produced in two years time.

Rastkhah said nuclear fuel waste in Iran include low level waste which  result from industrial and medical activities. According to him, the new plant is to arrange the burying of the radioactive materials.

Russia has undertaken the both fuel supplying and receiving nuclear fuel waste for Bushehr plant which will be launched for generating 1000 Mw electricity for 10 years.

Iran says it needs 20 nuclear plants such a Bushehr one  to generate 20, 000 Mw electricity and it prefers to enrich uranium nuclear fuel by itself.

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