Iran - Energy - Nuclear Power Station

Since all nuclear fuel cycle phases, including uranium exploration and extraction, purification, transfer and uranium enrichment, and construction of fuel rods for reactors and for the research reactor in Iran exist in Iran fully, operational of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant will place Iran among few countries worldwide to be skilled in full fuel cycle. Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is totally exceptional in Iran nuclear industries history because it goes on stream after almost three decades of delay. The event is a milestone in Iran's path to harness technology which it says will reduce consumption of its abundant fossil fuels, allowing it to export more oil and gas and to prepare for the day when the minerals riches dry up. (Photo by Mohsen Shandiz/Corbis via Getty Images)