Iran puts nuclear plant into operation

rte / cnn ^ | 26 August 2006 10:01

[maquiladora]

Iran has announced that a heavy water reactor plant south-west of Tehran has been put into operation.

The plutonium by-product of the plant could be used to make atomic war-heads but Iran insists it only intends to build nuclear power plants.

The move comes days before a UN deadline for Iran to halt uranium enrichment, the part of Tehran's atomic programme that most worries the West.

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A Reuters witness said on Saturday the president inaugurated the project and toured the site at Khondab, which is near Arak, 190 kilometers (120 miles) southwest of the capital Tehran. The plant's plutonium by-product could be used to make atomic warheads.

A small group of correspondents from foreign news organizations were taken with Iranian journalists to Khondab, the site near Arak where the heavy-water project is being built, to attend the presidential speech.

The complex was protected by dozens of anti-aircraft guns and surrounded by a four-meter high barbed wire fence. Photographers and TV journalists were asked not to take any images except in areas where they were specifically permitted.

[LeoWindhorse]

we should have dropped an ICBM on this plant while old Achmed
was there.

[newzjunkey]

If they're able to develop this technology for civilian use, none have a moral right to prevent them from using it. It's what they may do with byproducts that concerns.

If they go to nuclear power for electrical generation I say, "Bravo!," and wish we'd have the guts to build new plants ourselves.

[newzjunkey]

Well, those aren't mutually exclusive statements. Just because he said the 'Zionist regime' should be removed from the map, doesn't mean Iran is able or willing to do it themselves.

If everything south of Turkey, north of Egypt and west of Nepal fell into a hole tomorrow, the world could be a lot quieter.

[omega4179]

Hvy water reactors use plain unenriched unranium, making energy production simple then the spent fuel rods contain plutonium to make plutonium bombs with (nagasaki)

[LeoWindhorse]

Where the Israelis live now was the Land of the Jews long before there were any Arabs or any islam . They merely came home and live now in their own ancestral lands.
On the other hand the majority of 'arabs' were traditionally a nomadic people . One would think that in all the years since 48' some so-called arab nations would have been more accommodating to those arab that did not want to live with the Jews. Why does Egypt not offer the Palestinians the Sinai for instance?
Arabs behave as tribals and they reap their karma for that .
The Jews are better for the land of Israel that any arabs could ever hope to be. Plus their claims hold far greater weight and vintage.

[rdl6989]

What are we waiting for?

[Old_Mil]

How long does a heavy water plant have to run before it produces enough Plutonium to make a bomb? Because if the announcment is that the plant came on line today, I have a bad feeling that it actually came on line some time ago and these freaks already have several.

[DoctorZIn]

Its not operational yet...

"Iran has been building the heavy-water reactor for two years, and it is not scheduled for completion until 2009."

http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2006/08/iranian-president-inaugurates-reactor.html

[bill1952]

Good post. Are there still many breeder reactors in the world?

[bill1952]

...I swear it's like pre-World War II with Hitler...

[bill1952]

Excellent post.

I would add that rather than simply destroying those facilities, we should occupy the terminals and nearby fields.

That would introduce a new aspect to the control of that flow. - And we could do it, despite what the MSM pundits would have us believe.

[RightWhale]

I wish we could have some nuke power plants in Alaska. Greeley had one for a while. Galena was going to get one. Fairbanks should have one if only because the coal plants put out so much fog in the winter.

[Eagle74]

I agree that the navy should take the oil platforms in the gulf, but port facilities used for the export/import of oil, should be smashed.
The major objection I have been getting about this Idea is that gas prices will go up to much. But I like the Idea of prices going up as it is my firm belief that the only reason we as a nation are not energy independent is political. And consumers screaming about fuel prices will put pressure on the politicians to do something. I would be willing to pay extra gas taxes if that money was used to force rapid development of US energy self sufficiency. Oil shale, alcohol, nuclear power we can be energy independent. In fact we could be exporters.

[boughtwithaprice]

"Iran has announced that a heavy water reactor plant south-west of Tehran has been put into operation."

Well, we have a legit target now. Take it out!

[M. Espinola]

"Iran puts nuclear 'weapons' plant into operation."