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Aug 21, 2010

Iran Begins Fueling Its First Nuke Power Plant - CBS News

Media members stand at a gate of Bushehr nuclear power plant, Iran's first, with its reactor building in background, just outside city of Bushehr, 750 miles south of the capital, Tehran, Friday. Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel into the plant the next day. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) 

(AP)  Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant on Saturday, a major milestone as Tehran forges ahead with its atomic program despite U.N. sanctions.
The weeklong operation to load uranium fuel into the reactor at the Bushehr power plant in southern Iran is the first step in starting up a facility the U.S. once hoped to prevent because of fears over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

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