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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We should all be running off of Nuclear Power. Three mile island was a long time ago, technologies have improved 100/fold.
ReplyDeleteIt's fine for us but not sure about a country that goes around threatening to annihilate it's neighbors to have.
ReplyDeleteI 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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