The other parties to the medical reactor plan, Russia,France and the United States, told the International Atomic Energy Agency Friday they had accepted the proposal.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

(Sound) Amid loud acclamations of approval, top hardline Iranian cleric, Hojatoleslam Ahmad Khatami warned the West that Tehran will produce its own high-grade uranium for a medical research reactor, if the UN International Atomic Energy Agency refuses to provide the fuel.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

U.S. and United Nations officials have documented what they describe as serious limitations in Iran's ability to quickly and efficiently produce the enriched uranium required to either fuel a nuclear power reactor or to build an atomic weapon.

WSJ: North Korea Nuclear Find Raises Fears It Will Share With Iran

This is the stuff that atomic bombs and nuclear reactor fuel are made from.

FORBES: Energy's Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium

With plutonium no longer needed for use in the world's abandoned fast breeder reactor programmes and nuclear powers getting rid of their atomic weapons, large stockpiles of the highly toxic plutonium metal are starting to build up.

BBC: More suspect nuclear fuel found