Moscow Releases Nuclear Fuel for Iran’s Bushehr Reactor

[jpak]

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=190790

On June 8, the week before the G8 opened in Germany, Moscow released the long-withheld nuclear fuel for Iran’s atomic reactor in Busheh. One immediate result has been the stiffening of Tehran’s negative posture, sparking what nuclear watchdog director Mohammed ElBaradei called Monday, June 11, a confrontation that needs to be urgently defused.

Special nuclear containers were loaded on a train in the yard of the manufacturers JSC Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant on June 2-3. They contained two types of nuclear fuel, WER-440 and WER-1000.

The special train then headed out of Novosibirsk to Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea, 2,000 km away. There, the containers awaited loading aboard a Russian ship destined for Bandar Anzili, the Iranian military port on the Caspian shore. According to our Iranian sources, a fleet of Iranian trucks was waiting at the other end outside Bandar Anzili port to transport the nuclear fuel and drive it slowly and carefully to Bushehr, a distance of 850km, arriving June 10 or 11.

Sources added the journey was interrupted by holdups ordered by the Kremlin....

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I have it on good authority that a bunch Luddite Trust Fund Kids want to stop this reactor from producing clean green nuclear electricity...

:evilgrin:

[pheasant]

1. Clean green nuclear fund has been........

Clean green nuclear fund has been stopped here in America for decades by "well meaning people".

[Dogmudgeon]

2. So what?

1. I'm pretty certain that WER-440 and WER-1000 are types of reactors, not reactor fuel. Can whatever fuel they use be used to make bombs? Not easily. It is difficult to make a fission bomb's working material out of MOX. You might as well get the uranium from coal.

2. This article comes from a right-wing conspiracy website, and Debka is the article's source. Is it a reliable story?

3. Although a bunch Luddite Trust Fund Kids want to stop this reactor from producing clean green nuclear electricity, Dick Cheney is opposed to it, too.

4. How does this change anything about nuclear physics? It doesn't.

--p!

[jpak]

4. Cheney et al. *are* the trust fund luddites I alluded to

If Iran was receiving PV modules or wind turbines from whereever, no one would care.

[NNadir]

3. There are always luddite trust fund kids who want to stop nuclear energy.

Hardly any of them make any sense and they are almost completely without credibility throughout the world.

They think that energy is like playing with toys in their sandboxes.

I hope the reactor at Bushehr will operate soon, preventing the release of dangerous fossil fuel wastes.