Posted on 02/19/2004 12:44:16 PM PST by knighthawk
MOSCOW: Russia has trained 600 Iranian experts to work on its first nuclear power station, which Washington fears is being used to develop atomic weapons, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported on Wednesday.
An Iranian nuclear official told the agency that the experts had undergone training at the Novovoronezh Centre in Russia, which is to prepare some 700 specialists for work in the Bushehr plant. Russia faced intense pressure from the United States over helping Iran in construction of the Bushehr reactor.
The US fears that Iran could use fuel from the reactor for a programme for developing nuclear weapons. Washington has, however, toned down its criticism in the past several months.
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