Posted on 08/25/2006 8:30:34 PM PDT by HAL9000
Tehran, 25 August (AKI) - News agencies in Iran are predicting a new announcement from outspoken president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his country's nuclear progress. There is intense speculation that it may come next Tuesday on the first anniversary of the formation of the government after last year's elections. In the Iranian capital there are reports that Ahmadinejad, who several months ago announced the entry of Iran into the 'nuclear club' will provide details on progress in the field of heavy water reactors. It has a heavy water reactor under construction at the Arak plant in central Iran, 360 kilometres from Tehran.Western diplomats close to the UN nuclear watchdog said last year that Iran had already laid the foundations for the 40-megawatt heavy-water research reactor at Arak, despite calls by the European Union and the United Nations to scrap the project.
Heavy-water reactors can be used to produce significant quantities of bomb-grade plutonium, which can then be extracted from the spent fuel in a process known as re-processing.
So you're saying they can blow themselves up to smithereens? If so, it should save us a lot of money.
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