Posted on 08/13/2010 2:21:26 AM PDT by maquiladora
MOSCOW (AFP)--Iran's first nuclear power plant, being built by Russia in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr, will formally launch on Aug. 21, a spokesman for the Russian atomic agency told AFP on Friday.
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Well, wishful thinking perhaps :(
I just hope Israel bombs them - now. I can’t even imagine a nuclear Iran. Our worst nightmare.
Ok Israel, you know what to do.
They won’t be the only ones launching something ;)
In the step scheduled for Aug. 21, fuel will be shifted from storage to the reactor chamber. The second stage involves loading the fuel assemblies into the hardened stainless steel core. The final step is bringing the fuel rods close enough to begin the nuclear reaction.
Each of the 160, hexagonal fuel assemblies weighs about 700 kilograms, or 1,540 pounds, and loading a core typically takes about a month, Vladislav P. Bochkov, a spokesman for Rosatom, said in a telephone interview. “Then the rods are lowered and a chain reaction begins,” he said.
Russian technicians would bring the reaction to the minimal sustainable level, and then conduct tests on controls and radiation shields for two to three more months before the plant would begin generating electricity.
As soon as the fuel is irradiated it will begin to produce plutonium that could be used in an atomic weapon, and for this reason Russia has insisted on the spent fuel’s return as a condition for completing and fueling the plant.
The 64 tons of low-enriched uranium that Russia supplied for use near Bushehr far exceeds the 5,300 pounds the Iranians have produced for themselves to date, according to estimates by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/world/europe/14bushehr.html?ref=russia
Who Dares wins!
The EU (Germany) will intervene and bomb Iran first.
Once the rods are fully in place, what happens if there is no longer any electricity to pull them out? The Arabs are in with Israel on this one. Just blow up electric generating plants/ delivery wires and a few dams and burn down their oil industry. Their army can’t run on piss while alpha and beta particles are falling on their bodies in the form of snow.
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