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| Iran Offers U.S. Share in Nuclear Plants |
| 2005-12-12 |
| Iran opened the door Sunday for U.S. help in building a nuclear power plant — a move designed to ease American suspicions that Tehran is using its nuclear program as a cover to build atomic weapons. The offer, which did not seem likely to win acceptance in Washington, was issued as Israel said it had not ruled out a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. "America can take part in international bidding for the construction of Iran's nuclear power plant if they observe the basic standards and quality," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said in a news conference. Asefi was apparently talking about a 360-megawatt light water nuclear power plant that the head of the country's atomic organization said Saturday would be built in southwestern Iran. Iran also wants to produce 2,000 megawatts of electricity by building nuclear power plants with foreign help in southern Iran. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 and we all know how badly Iran needs nuclear fuel. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-12-12 17:22 |
| #6 Construction is one thing. How will the plant be fuelled? What happens to the spent fuel? The plants that India wishes to buy from the USA and Russia would be IAEA safeguarded. The enriched fuel would be imported and the spent fuel shipped back to the country of origin for reprocessing and waste disposal. Would Iran agree to the same conditions? Of course, the capability of two countries are not equivalent. India builds its own reactors and has complete fuel cycle technology (from mining of ore to enrichment and fuel fabrication to plutonium reprocessing and waste vitrification). It also has actual weapon technology - building boosted fission and thermonuclear warheads. But India is a declared weapon state while Iran has publically forsaken nuclear weapons as un-islamic. There should therefore be no problem with this. |
| Posted by: john 2005-12-12 14:20 |
| #5 I suggest this is merely "bait & switch." None of this precludes clandestine Iranian R&D of nuclear weapons. SSDD. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-12-12 13:37 |
| #4 I suggest they contact Acme's Targets 'R Us division. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2005-12-12 03:28 |
| #3 You mean there's an ounce of sanity to be found in Tehran? Sounds like someone had an "oh shit" moment following reports of Israel's (alleged) military planning. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2005-12-12 02:22 |
| #2 How long till this gets pulled back by the Nutball president? This sounds more like the diplos working than it does the Terrorist-in-Teheran. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2005-12-12 02:12 |
| #1 Smooth move, you gotta admit. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2005-12-12 01:39 |