Report: Iran builds, tests first nuclear rod

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Iran succeeded in building and testing the country's first nuclear fuel rod, the semiofficial news agency FARS said Sunday.

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The rod, containing natural uranium, was successfully tested and is being "radiated in the core of the Tehran research nuclear reactor," the news agency said, citing Iran's atomic energy agency website.

Natural uranium is used to fuel reactors.

"Natural uranium" ? Fuels reactors? Sounds confused.
Anyway, good for them. If they can complete the fuel cycle then they can do business with a lot of reactor owners who are currently tied to very expensive virtual monopolies who do that work. Competition would be good for the power companies - bad for the reprocessors of course.