Granted, a fuel fabrication facility is not the sexiest element of the nuclear fuel cycle, but we all thrive on novelty, don’t we? So here, in the tradition of Iranian National Nuclear Technology Day events of years past, is what you’ve been waiting for.

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Together, the shots above give the best overall view of what appears to be the main hall of one of at least two large halls in the Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP). As you can see, there’s still a great deal of open space where equipment has yet to be installed. And there are a number of close-up shots as well. This one looks like an unfinished glovebox, doesn’t it?

In the links above, I’ve singled out pictures that display the installed equipment. So as not to exaggerate my own ability to interpret them, I present them without further comment. Readers are encouraged to dive in.

Of course, that’s not all. Photo collections can be found at IRNA here, here, and here. ISNA has pictures here. A few shots from AP, Reuters, and AFP appear in this Yahoo! News collection. The Presidential website has only some pictures from the ceremony.

Update: an ACW reader has flagged another photo collection, this one from Fars News. The image of the hall now shown in the upper right quadrant, above, is drawn from this collection.

Further update: still more wire photos can be seen at daylife, an aggregator site. Of special interest is this Reuters shot of a control panel.

Knock yourselves out, folks!