The United States and its European allies suspect Iran is trying to build an atomic bomb, and have imposed sanctions on it in a drive to convince it to drop sensitive nuclear work. Tehran says its nuclear program is for civilian purposes only.
Iran’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran was ready to cooperate with the international community over the country’s National Fusion Energy Project, the Students News Agency ISNA reported, without mentioning the plan to build the reactor.
“The scientific phase of the fusion energy research project is being launched with no budgetary limitation,” Mr Salehi said.
Commercial nuclear reactors rely on nuclear fission, a process that generates energy from splitting atoms.
– Reuters