Russia could build eight nuclear reactors for Iran

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Russia built Iran's only operating nuclear power reactor, at the Bushehr plant.

Longstanding Western fears that the Bushehr project could help Iran develop nuclear weapons - something it denies it is seeking to do - receded after Iran promised to send the spent fuel from the plant back to Russia.

(Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Alissa de Carbonnel)

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