Iran Begins Fueling First Nuclear Reactor (ap)

An Iranian security guard stands at a gate of the Bushehr nuclear power plant as its reactor building is seen in background, just outside the city of Bushehr 750 miles (1245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Russia's nuclear chief said Thursday that the planned startup of Iran's first nuclear power plant will demonstrate that Iran is entitled to peaceful use of nuclear energy under international supervision. Sergei Kiriyenko said at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that the uranium fuel will be loaded into the reactor in Iran's southern port of Bushehr on Saturday. (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.

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