Iran offers Russia to establish joint nuclear consortium

“We have put forward a proposal to Russia on the establishment of a consortium under license of this country to do part of the work in Russia and part of it in Iran. Moscow is studying the proposal now,” IRNA quoted head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI,) Ali Akbar Salehi, as saying Thursday.

Iran does not intend to produce the whole amount of the fuel needed for its power plants on its soil, Salehi said, but reiterated that Tehran would not stop enrichment to prove itself to be capable of producing uranium and transforming it into plates.

The Islamic Republic started loading fuel into the Bushehr plant, its first nuclear power plant, on August 21.


/Press TV/