Posted on 02/27/2009 9:33:24 AM PST by lewisglad
Russia and Iran are planning to sign a nuclear fuel supply contract for a term of at least 10 years, the head of Russia's nuclear power corporation said on Wednesday.
Sergei Kiriyenko said earlier in the day that Russia had completed the construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr and would soon launch a trial run.
He did not say when the plant would go into operation, commenting that this would depend on the outcome of the testing.
"We're unable at this stage to set an exact date for the launch; we have an agreed-on testing and inspection schedule," he said. "The actual date will depend on how these tests proceed."
The plant in south Iran, which Russia undertook to finish as part of a 1998 contract, was originally scheduled to go on line at the end of 2006, but the date has been pushed back several times.
Kiriyenko previously said that under the Russian-Iranian contract, Russian experts would operate the plant's first reactor and create a team of skilled Russian staff.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said earlier the Bushehr plant would go on stream in the first half of 2009.
In December 2007-January 2008, Russia supplied nuclear fuel for the plant under control of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog. Iran has agreed to return spent nuclear fuel to Russia.
The construction of the Bushehr plant was started in 1975 by German companies. However, the German firms stopped work after a U.S. embargo on hi-tech supplies to Iran was imposed following the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran by radical students.
Calling Israel . . . are you watching?
Are these Ezekiel 38-39 events in motion?
Has Zero tacitly approved this in some fashion?
Nuclear power is sooo 80’s, we are going to have unlimited renewable energy that powers everything and costs virtually nothing/ sarc
No shock here. This is long term stuff for the russians. Arm Iran, get them to first annoy, then fully attack America by proxy.
Russia is waging bigtime war on the US with this move.
And they have an accomplice in the WH.
I'd bet he even thinks they'd give a crap what he says.
I would argue 70’s. by the 80’s nuclear was headed backward.
In the 70’s plants were built. In the 80’s plants were canceled.
During the 70’s I got my bumper sticker “A little Nookie never hurt anybody”
Pootie-poot is back in the warpath.
Putin tries to make the oil price go up.
Israel should wipe out Tehran and Moscow.
YNET NEWS.com: "EXPERT: IRANIAN BOMB POSSIBLE IN A FEW MONTHS Israeli security experts unsurprised by US Joint Chiefs of Staff head's statement that Iran has enough fissile material to make nuclear bomb. 'Everone agrees the Iranians have the systems; the only question is the timetables,' says Dr. Ephraim Asculai" by Daniel Edelson (Published March 2, 2009, 09:55)
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