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Iran Says It Can Create Its Own Nuclear Fuel
(CNN) Iran's atomic chief and acting foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi told the semiofficial Fars News Agency, "We set up an advanced facility in Isfahan to manufacture fuel plates....There was a massive development in the field of (nuclear) fuel rods and plates. With the completion of this facility in Isfahan we are now among the few countries that manufacture both the (nuclear) fuel rod and plate." Salehi told state media in December that Iran was able to produce everything it needs for the nuclear fuel cycle, making its nuclear program self-sufficient. But it was not clear that Tehran actually had the technology to turn enriched uranium into fuel rods to run a nuclear reactor.