Iran seeks to build fully homemade nuclear reactor

Deputy Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Begman Jamshidi, said on Saturday that his country is seeking to establish a fully home-made nuclear reactor.

The official “Fars” news agency quoted Jamshidi as saying “the project had been planned and that it was underway.”

The Iranian official stressed that his country owns the full cycle of nuclear fuel production, and that this cycle has been fully localized from the stage of raw materials discovery to the treatment of nuclear waste.

Jamshidi also pointed out that Iran is currently producing 20 types of radioactive drugs and supplies them to treatment centers at home, noting that it has become one of the main exporting countries for these drugs.

YPA