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| Iran plans up to 10 reactors |
| 2004-10-28 |
| 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 "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 |
| #15 I (/optimism on/) see this one going our way. First, note that Iran's been paying Russia in cash. Soooo, Russia keeps building the plants and then (woops) let's slip to us their exact GPS coordinates after Putin's been pushed over the edge from that school attack. A win-win...Russia gets cash, and we (or Israel, if Bush isn't re-elected) get the GPS coordinates for testing our new low level bunker busters. Also, maybe Russia (again, whoops) accidentally doesn't build them to specs...what could that do? (/optimism off/) |
| Posted by: BA 2004-10-28 9:20:20 PM |
| #14 AP, Don't worry. The Iranians have the Russians helping them who're going to ratify Kyoto. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-10-28 9:14:24 PM |
| #13 Not only that, but with 10 reactors going and a plutonium extraction plant or two on line, they are going to have one mess of highly toxic and radioactive waste to deal with, too. And the odds are that the Iranians will have to deal with serious seismic issues with the plants. And we know how careful they are with building construction, a la Bam. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-10-28 9:11:45 PM |
| #12 Want to bet all 10 reactors will be the graphite - heavy water plutonium factories? How many thousands of plutonium cores will they produce each year? |
| Posted by: ed 2004-10-28 8:42:54 PM |
| #11 Looks like the Pakistanis are going to get some mullah mist drifting their way. That's fair since they hold the record for proliferation-related sales anyway. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-10-28 8:19:04 PM |
| #10 Sounds good - I'm gonna go get a quote on eBay... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-28 6:57:29 PM |
| #9 Today there are two kinds of submarines in our Navy: the TRIDENT ballistic missile submarine, the so-called "boomer," equipped with an estimated weapons load of more than 200 nuclear bombs carried in 24 extremely long-range intercontinental missiles; and the "Attack" submarine, fitted with shorter-range, air-breathing missiles, which are also capable of phenomenal accuracy over land or sea. Both types carry conventional torpedoes, and can launch all their weapons from complete submergence. The TRIDENTs carry a MIRVed missile in each of their 24 missile tubes. MIRV is the acronym for Multiple, Independently targeted, Re-entry Vehicle, meaning that after reaching the target vicinity the missile's warhead splits apart into as many as ten smaller nuclear bombs aimed at ten different targets with computer-controlled accuracy. How this works - and the precise number of reentry vehicles in each warhead - is secret, but the tremendous fact is that a single broadside from such a submarine - all 24 missiles fired at the same time - can destroy any nation on the face of the earth. No nation - and this includes our own - could even hope to function, or even continue to exist, in the face of such a salvo. Incontrovertibly, the TRIDENT submarine with this fantastic armament will prove to be the dooms-day weapon imagined by scientists, statesmen, and historians since the term was invented. http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_7/submarine_mission.htm |
| Posted by: dennisw 2004-10-28 6:54:28 PM |
| #8 Isn't this where |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-28 5:51:32 PM |
| #7 Actually, Frank, 24 tubes with 8 RVs per tube per START, 12 RVs max. 2 D-5s should do nicely, with some left over for the mullahs. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-10-28 5:48:13 PM |
| #6 That's a lot of nuclear capability for a country floating on oil. Those PA systems in the minnarets must really need some "juice" |
| Posted by: TomAnon 2004-10-28 4:22:09 PM |
| #5 "Iran plans up to 10 reactors" That's a lot of Hooter's bufflo wings with 3-mile island sauce. Hello Silo, nice to meet you. Have you met my friend Bunker Buster? |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2004-10-28 4:03:54 PM |
| #4 Buy off the Russians. If it costs us $6B to do so, it's a bargain. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-28 3:57:39 PM |
| #3 And I'm building a stable for 20 ponies. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-28 3:38:06 PM |
| #2 hmmmm - how many silos are on the typical boomer sub? Oh, more than 10.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-28 3:31:39 PM |
| #1 Russia’s dealing with the devil is going to bite them in the ass, but they cannot help it.... Make that has bitten them in the ass. Iran was backing the terrorists in that school..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-10-28 3:15:24 PM |