Iran to explore for uranium across the country

TEHRAN -- Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Director Ali Akbar Salehi has stated that Iran plans to explore for uranium to meet the country’s growing need for energy in the future.


“Previously, approximately a third of the country had been explored for uranium. But now, with the ample budget that the administration has committed to the organization (the AEOI), all of the country has been surveyed and some very promising veins of uranium have been discovered,” Salehi said in Tehran on Wednesday.

The exploration project is being carried out to help the efforts to provide a major portion of the uranium Iran will require over the next eight years, he added.

Salehi’s remarks come days after Iran loaded its first nuclear reactor with nuclear fuel rods delivered from Russia.

The Bushehr nuclear power plant was launched on August 21 as engineers loaded the first of 163 fuel rods into the reactor under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Commenting on the resumption of nuclear talks with the Vienna group (the United States, Russia, France, and the IAEA), Salehi said that IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano is personally planning to arrange a meeting that will probably be held in September.

But Tehran has not received a formal letter yet, he added
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