600 Russian experts start working on key phase of Iran nuclear reactor

Al Bawaba, the Middle East Gateway ^ | September 1 2002

[knighthawk]

About 600 Russian experts started work Sunday on a key phase of the US$800 million project to set up a nuclear reactor in Iran.

"We have reached the stage of assembling our reactor and the turbine," Viktor Kozlov, managing director of Atomstroiexport company was quoted as telling ITAR-Tass news agency.

Kozlov told ITAR-Tass that as construction of the nuclear plant in Iran enters its final stage "the number of Russian specialists will rise and will reach 2,000 people by year-end," he said.

The U.S. administration has expressed concern that the planned 1,000 megawatt reactor in Bushehr will help advance Iran's weapons program.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[BenLurkin]

The Russians were evidently not defeated soundly enough in the cold war.

[Diogenesis]

(NO) THANKS IVAN.
Iran's Bushehr Nuclear facility, built with the Russians' help.

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The Reactor was first made in Russia at the Izhora plant,
then shipped by train from St. Petersburg on November 2001.

[Diogenesis]

Bushehr :

[Mr. Mojo]

The Russians' work will all be in vain. That reactor will be destroyed (by either us or Israel)in less that 6 months, IMHO.

[Eternal_Bear]

If you kill Russians then we are in for big trouble. They still have thousands of nukes. They are the one nation that can exterminate us from the globe. Nobody will bomb that site as long as there are hundreds of russians there and i suspect they will be there for a long time.

[Mr. Mojo]

Do you honestly think Russia would lanuch ICBMs against the US (and commit suicide in the process) over a few dead at an Iranian reactor?

[Mr. Mojo]

And incidentally, the Russian workers won't be living at the reactor. There will probably be numerous opportunities to destroy it without them being there.

[scab4faa]

600 Russian experts start working on key phase of Iran nuclear reactor

And 4 isreali planes blow it too hell. Sounds like a good trade too me.

[krogers58]

If you kill Russians then we are in for big trouble. They still have thousands of nukes. They are the one nation that can exterminate us from the globe. Nobody will bomb that site as long as there are hundreds of russians there and i suspect they will be there for a long time.

I'd lay odds, and am taking bets, that this thing never gets online. There is no way Israel will accept the Iranians having a nuclear capability, alongside the existing Iranian ICBM program. The Iranians have the capability to launch a missile that will hit Israel, it would be suicide for the Israeili's to allow the Iranians to develop a nuclear capability. This is simply a Russian bargaining chip with us, they want something big from us, and whatever it is, as long as the profit potential from our deal exceeds the profit potential of the Iranian Nuclear reactor, the Russian's will drop it like a hot potato.

[knighthawk]

I see somebody added some keywords. A lot of them.

I even see Sweden mentioned!

LOL!

[nimc]

This is now the second 'most lethal' place to be for the next 6 weeks.