Plan is to start the reactor near the Iranian city of Bushehr by end of year
MOSCOW - Russian news agencies quote the country's nuclear agency chief as saying a Russian-built nuclear power reactor in Iran is still set to be switched on this year.
State-run RIA-Novosti and ITAR-Tass quote Sergei Kiriyenko as saying plans remain for a start-up of the reactor near the Iranian city of Bushehr by the end of the year.
Russia is helping Iran build its first nuclear power plant as part of a program Iran says is purely peaceful. The United States and Israel say it is meant to develop atomic weapons.
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3 comments:
We should all be running off of Nuclear Power. Three mile island was a long time ago, technologies have improved 100/fold.
It's fine for us but not sure about a country that goes around threatening to annihilate it's neighbors to have.
I think and Hope that their people will win in the long run. There not crazy, they are just looking for a way out. The leaders a mad-man.
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