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Iran plans up to 10 reactors
From Geostrategy-Direct, subscription req'd. More insomnia medicine four you, courtesy of the Mad Mullahs.
Iran has been examining a proposal to construct up to 10 nuclear reactors. The plan comes as work on Iran's first nuclear reactor has been hampered by labor protests.
They put their money into religious fanaticism and nukes, sound seismic resistant buildings are on the back burner.
Iranian officials said the plan, drafted in parliament and examined by the government, would follow up the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power reactor. The plan called for the construction of an additional nine nuclear reactors after Bushehr.
If the first one is levelled, the others may be put on hold for a while, heh.
So far, Iran has been discussing the construction of additional reactors with Russia, the prime contractor of the Bushehr project.
Russia's dealing with the devil is going to bite them in the ass, but they cannot help it....
Moscow was said to have agreed in principle to construct an additional three reactors in Iran as well as a second reactor unit at Bushehr. The $1 billion Bushehr reactor is said to be between 80 and 90 percent complete. Iran has said the facility would be operational in 2006 while Russia said the reactor could be on-line in 2005.
For mission planning, the attack will have to be done before fueling, so that means now until early summer 2005 at the latest.
Officials said the construction of additional reactors has become feasible with Iran's acquisition of expertise and equipment required to complete the nuclear fuel cycle. They said Iran was capable of doing everything from mining uranium to producing enriched uranium through gas centrifuges. On Oct. 24, a parliamentary delegation toured a uranium conversion facility in Isfahan to examine Iran's nuclear capabilities. The delegation expressed support for the establishment of a network of nuclear power reactors to ensure Iran's nuclear explosive energy needs over the next 20 years. Kamal Daneshyar, chairman of parliament's energy committee, has called on the government to construct an additional nine nuclear power plants in Iran. Daneshyar said the added facilities would ensure that Iran could produce at least 10 million megawatts of electricity per year from nuclear energy. The parliamentary chairman said the government was being pressed to issue tenders for the construction of nine nuclear reactors. He said international companies would be invited to submit bids.
"I'll do it! I'll do it!" sez France.
Officials said parliament would become more active in Iran's nuclear program. They said parliamentarians would tour nuclear sites in an effort to accelerate government and parliamentary decisions.
Be a good time for an attack during a Bushehr junket, heh heh. A two-fer.
The discussion on additional nuclear power plants came amid protests by laborers at the Bushehr nuclear facility. Bushehr workers have said they haven't been paid their salaries, Iranian media reported.
Somehow, we need to exploit that issue. Do the MMs have a serious cash flow issue. Someplace I read that Iran has been paying Russia cash for the reactor job, and that payments were an issue for a while.
On Oct. 22, Iranian security forces disrupted a labor protest at Bushehr. The ILNA news agency said authorities dismissed some of the protesters and transferred others. The labor dispute at Bushehr has been submitted to the Labor Ministry. But Isa Kamali, secretary of the Bushehr Labor Association, said the ministry was blocked from investigating the complaints because of the classified nature of the nuclear reactor project.
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-10-28
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=47187