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Tehran Promises To Send Uranium Abroad For Processing

October 02 2009

Iran

Iran has agreed in principle to export much of its openly declared enriched uranium to Russia to be turned into fuel for a small reactor that produces medical isotopes, the New York Times reports.

In Thursday's negotiations with the so-called G5+1 -- The U.S., Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia -- Iranian officials also promised to open a newly revealed uranium-enrichment plant near Qom for inspection within two weeks.

The director of the International Atomic Energy...

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