Posted on 01/20/2008 12:23:05 AM PST by james500
Russia has now delivered more than half the fuel for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, after a fourth consignment arrived at the Bushehr site in southern Iran.
The fourth consignment of fuel weighed 11 tonnes, Iran's national news agency quoted the Organisation for Production and Development of Nuclear Energy as saying in a statement.
Russia has so far delivered 44 tonnes of fuel, after shipments which arrived on December 17, 28 and January 18.
It is due to deliver a total of about 82 tonnes of nuclear fuel in eight consignments, with the last due next month.
Iran insisted on December 30 that its first nuclear power station would be launched in the summer of 2008, despite the plant's Russian constructors saying it would not go on line until the end of the year.
"The Bushehr nuclear power station will launch at a capacity of 50 per cent next summer," said Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.
A Russian contractor is finishing the construction of the much-delayed 1,000-megawatt plant in Bushehr.
Russia also agreed to deliver the nuclear fuel required by the facility.
After delivery of the first shipment of fuel, Russia said Iran no longer needed to pursue its own uranium enrichment, a message repeated by US President George W Bush.
The Iranian Government refuses to suspend its uranium enrichment activities despite UN Security Council resolutions and two sets of sanctions demanding the Islamic republic suspend its sensitive nuclear activities.
The five permanent members of the Security Council are scheduled to meet on Tuesday in Berlin to discuss "elements of a possible resolution" to force Iran to suspend enrichment.
Iran denies Western charges that it is seeking nuclear arms, insisting its program is peaceful and aimed at providing civilian energy.
Russia is selling Iran nuclear technology for oil. Russia would sacrafice Isreal and sell their souls to Satan just to be a super power again.
We are living the book of Revalations.
May the Bushehr plant blow-up when they flip the switch.
Any idiot who believed that the Russian people were “victims” of totalitarianism better wake up.
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Does anybody know what kind of reactor the Iranians have built? All nuclear plants are not the same. If the plant is like an American PWR or BWR, then that plant is probably not a threat. If it’s a graphite reactor like the Russian RBMK, then we probably have a problem.
I believe it is a PWR but not sure.
Russia,
Thank you for your final Chernobyl installment!
They already have!
We are living the book of Revalations.
I agree that we are, and things are only going to get worse! Hang on to your seat, it's going to be one heck of a ride, but the end of the ride is going to be so worth it. :o)
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