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Iran has begun construction of a 10 MW pool-type light water reactor nuclear research reactor of its own design in Isfahan.

Date: Wednesday, 02 November 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiran-starts-construction-of-research-reactor-in-isfahan-10137261

The head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, has said that construction of a new research reactor in the central city of Isfahan will begin in the coming weeks. One of its tasks will be to test nuclear fuel for other reactors. nuclear fuel test for other reactors. He made the announcement during a visit to the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) at the Isfahan site.

Date: Tuesday, 02 August 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiran-to-construct-research-reactor-in-isfahan-9891569

The United Arab Emirates on 19 February began loading the first nuclear fuel rods into the reactor at unit 1 of its Barakah nuclear power plant.

Date: Friday, 21 February 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfuel-loading-begins-at-uaes-barakah-nuclear-plant-7782338

Russian nuclear fuel company TVEL (part of state nuclear corporation Rosatom) plans to transfer Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant to new TVS-2M fuel in 2020.

Date: Friday, 27 April 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-design-fuel-for-irans-npp-6130531

The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran and Nuclear Power Production and Development Company of Iran have signed an additional agreement to the current commercial contract for nuclear fuel supply to the Bushehr I nuclear power plant. According to the new document, Russian nuclear fuel manufacturer JSC TVEL will replace the UTVS fuel assemblies it has supplied to the VVER-1000 reactor with its more advanced TVS-2M fuel design.

Date: Wednesday, 25 April 2018
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Iran-s-Bushehr-I-changes-to-TVS-2M-fuel

As it turns out, Germany's Gundremmingen NPP has been found to be infected with remote-access trojans and file-stealing malware. Reuters reports that these included "W32.Ramnit" and "Conficker", which were found in a computer system that deals with data visualization related to equipment that moves nuclear fuel rods. At least 18 removable drives similar to USB sticks being used at the facility were also affected. The contamination was thought to have been introduced through the use of corrupted USB sticks, which is how Iran's enrichment facilities earlier became infected with the Stuxnet computer worm.

Date: Thursday, 28 April 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgerman-npp-has-worms-4878003