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Iran to build several nuclear 'research' reactors

2011-04-11

Iran will continue enriching uranium to 20 percent level to fuel "four to five" nuclear research reactors it intends to build in the "next few years," a top official told the ISNA news agency on Monday.

So as to research, you know, plutonium...

"In the next few years, four to five (research) reactors... of 10 to 20 megawatts will be built" in the country, the head of Iran's atomic energy organisation Fereydoon Abbasi Davani was quoted as saying.

"Thus we need to continue enrichment to 20 percent in order to provide them with fuel," added Abbasi Davani, who was appointed to the post in February.

The Islamic republic is under four sets of UN Security Council sanctions over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.

"Enrichment up to 20 percent will continue and will not halt. We will increase the volume of the 20 percent enrichment based on the country's needs. For this, we will not ask for permission from anyone," Abbasi Davani said.

The aim of the new reactors is "to produce radio isotopes, and (to enable) research and development," he said.

Development of fission bombs, for example...

These reactors "will be built in different provinces," he said, without elaborating, but adding that building the first "will take three to four years."

Long enough time line that a pro-active American government could do something about it.

Iran announced in June last year it intended to build a "number" of research reactors aimed at producing radio isotopes for "sale and export to the regional and Islamic countries that need them."

So that all Islamic countries could have plutonium for research purposes...

Officials have repeatedly said that Iran would produce the nuclear fuel required for a research reactor in Tehran by September 2011.

Western powers have repeatedly said Iran does not possess the technology to make the actual nuclear fuel plates required to power the Tehran research reactor which makes medical isotopes.

But the Russians do...

Posted by:Steve White

#2 As per POLITICAL-LEGAL JIHAD + good intentions of the pro-Democracy "Jasmine" ME mass protests, RADICAL ISLAM is on the verge of procuring political power in a host of "moderate" sovereign Arab-Muslim countries, vee "normal" local electoral processes, + including histor powerhouse EGYPT whom already has a long-established Civilian Nucprog for energy.

The scenario is real that, come 2012 or shortly after, IRAN WILL STILL GO NUCLEAR [NucWeapons] WHILE STEADILY NO LONGER BEING THE ONLY SOURCE FOR NUKE-WMD TECHS FOR SOLE, VARIOUS ISLAMIST MILTERRS.

It will not be Iran, or even Iran + Pakistan, anymore, just as it won't be the USA-VS-RISING-CHINA ONLY anymore.

Like the original Mohammedan Conquests of the Middle Ages, the OWG Caliphate = Global Islamist-Jihadist State [Nuclear?] came = rose like a SUDDEN WIND.

** DRUDGEREPORT > UNREST IN INDIA? | [FT.com] TATA CHIEF WARNS OF INDIA UNREST, as due to US$39.0Bilyuhn telecommunications national scandal.

IIUC ARTIC = IOW, any breakout of "Jasmine" style mass protests + challenge to the curr Govt. in Indjuh NEED NOT BE ORGINALLY LED NOR INDUCED, ETC. BY EITHER COMMIE-MAOIST, MUSLIM REBELS - THE TWO LATTER, ETC. DID NOT START THE "JASMINE" BUT THEY MAY VERY WELL FINISH IT ALA EGYPT'S "MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD" + COALITION.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-11 21:04

#1 Ditto repor NORTH KOREA as per SoKor this past weekend, on more or less the North's intent to unilater expand its indigenous Nucprog despite the on-going post-YEONGPYEONG brouhaha wid the South + new national hunger issues.

* ION FREEREPUBLIC/TOPIX > AS IRAN GOES NUCLEAR, THE US [POTUS Bammer = Admin] DOES NOTHING.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-11 20:41

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