Venezuela's president has announced the creation of an atomic energy commission and plans to lead the South American nation into the nuclear era.
Following a visit to Moscow, Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday his government would catch up with the continent's only other nations who possess nuclear power stations - Brazil and Argentina.
Dismissing US concerns over the project, Chavez said: "I say it before the world: Venezuela is going to start the process of developing nuclear energy.
"But we're not going to make an atomic bomb, so don't be bothering us afterward ... with something like what they have against Iran."
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