[Reuters] Mark Heinrich - Iran has begun making nuclear fuel in its underground uranium enrichment plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday. IAEA said agency inspectors visited the Natanz plant on April 15-16 and learned that 1,312 centrifuges, divided into eight cascades, were running and "some" uranium was being fed into them. Iran has installed hundreds of centrifuges within weeks and aims to have 3,000 operational by the end of May. That could be enough to refine uranium for one bomb within a year, if Iran wanted to and if the machines ran for long periods without breakdown. Iran has yet to demonstrate such proficiency.
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