Iran nuclear plant may not start before end-2008
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Iran's first nuclear power plant Bushehr will not be operational until at least the end of 2008, Russian news agencies quoted the head of the company building the facility as saying on Thursday.
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VIENNA, OCTOBER 6: Iran began processing uranium more than a week ago to prepare it for enrichment - a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons â-n defiance of the United Nationsâ nuclear watchdog, a diplomat said on Wednesday.
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Iran says it has delayed plans to start up its first nuclear reactor by a year - but it plans to build more plants with Russian help.
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Iran's hard-line president on Saturday inaugurated a heavy-water production plant, a facility the West fears will be used to develop a nuclear bomb, as Tehran remained defiant ahead of a U.N. deadline that could lead to sanctions.
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Iran has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons but does not intend doing so, a senior Iranian official said here Wednesday. &quot;We do not intend making nuclear weapons,&quot; said Ali Akbar Soltan, deputy director
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Iran reportedly is making steady progress toward producing nuclear fuel and could make a significant amount of enriched uranium within a year.
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Iran's nuclear work is almost at its "peak", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday while the head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog said Iran was probably at least three years from making a nuclear bomb if it so chooses.
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A nuclear plant hit by an earthquake may not be allowed to reopen for more than a year, Japanese reports say.
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Iran reiterated Tuesday it was only  prepared to freeze its uranium enrichment activities for a few  months and would not, as the EU and Washington want,  permanently mothball facilities which could make atomic bombs.
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Russia will delay starting up Iran's first nuclear power plant because Tehran is behind with payments, a Russian atomic industry source said on Monday, as a U.N. deadline neared for Iran to curb disputed nuclear activity.
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Iran on Sunday announced a further substantial delay in the long overdue project to complete its first nuclear power plant, part of a program which Washington says could be used to make atomic arms.
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As far as is known, no. But it does have an advanced nuclear fuel cycle that could deliver bomb-grade fissile material. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it has found no evidence that Iran
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TEHRAN, Iran  - A uranium conversion facility in Iran is nearing completion, a top official said Sunday, only days after European countries offered a deal in which Iran would reportedly have to give up all nuclear activities.
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Iran would need another three to eight years to make a nuclear bomb, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in an interview published on Monday, warning against any rush to use force to curb its nuclear ambitions.
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Iran will continue preparing raw  "yellowcake" uranium for enrichment, a process that can be used  to make nuclear weapons, until the end of February, despite a  recent pledge to freeze all such activity, diplomats said.
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VIENNA, Sept 12  - Iran could join the small club of nuclear-armed nations by 2007, or sooner if it is secretly developing weapons despite denials, analysts say.
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Iran expects to have its own nuclear-generated electricity by this time next year and will not bow to Western pressure to halt uranium enrichment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.