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| Russia offers its services to build two new reactors in Iran |
| 2006-05-12 |
| From Geostrategy-Direct, subscription. MOSCOW — Russia has drafted an offer to supply another two nuclear reactors to Iran. Just what the world needs. Russia's Atom Stroi Export Co. has been preparing to enter an Iranian tender for the procurement of two nuclear power plants. Atom Stroi has been finishing work on Iran's first nuclear power unit at Bushehr, expected to be completed in mid-2007. Vladimir Pavlov, director of Atom Stroi subsidiary Nuclear Power Plants Organization, said the Russian company would base its tender offer on the Bushehr project. Pavlov said the company was capable of building the most advanced and safest nuclear facility for Iran. "Russia's nuclear industrial units are equipped with the most advanced technologies in manufacturing nuclear power plants," Pavlov said. "We are getting prepared to survey our facilities to participate in the tenders to be held by Iran for building nuclear power plants." Teheran has budgeted $243 million in its 2006-2007 budget for two nuclear plants, reportedly in western Iran. Officials have said both facilities would be light-water reactors capable of generating at least 1,000 megawatts of electricity each. "If our technical specifications are accepted and the political conditions are favorable, we will participate in the forthcoming tenders," Pavlov said. Atom Stroi is more than three years behind schedule in completing the Bushehr facility. Pavlov, citing difficulties in adjusting Russian equipment to the infrastructure built by the German company Siemens in the 1970s, said 90 percent of the first nuclear power unit at Bushehr has been completed. "Currently, the final stage of the installation of the equipment is underway and according to the relevant timetable, the first phase is expected to become |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #2 Putin's soul was mortgaged on the dead of the apartment blocks he allowed the fsb to sacrifice in order to authorise the second chechen invasion in 1999. |
| Posted by: pihkalbadger 2006-05-12 18:14 |
| #1 Putin's game is so deep that a walk through the ocean of his soul would scarcely get your feet wet. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-05-12 17:18 |