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Iraq now wanting nuclear power

Iraq flags desire to resume nuclear power The Age MARTIN CHULOV, BAGHDAD October 29, 2009 IRAQ has started lobbying for approval to again become a nuclear player, almost 19 years after British and American war planes destroyed Saddam Hussein’s last two reactors.The Iraqi Government has approached the French nuclear industry about rebuilding at least one of the reactors that was bombed at the start of the first Gulf war. The Government has also contacted the International Atomic Energy Agency and the UN to seek ways around resolutions that ban Iraq’s re-entry into the nuclear field.
Iraq says it envisages that a reactor would be used initially for research purposes. ”We are co-operating with the IAEA and expanding and defining areas of research where we can implement nuclear technology for peaceful means,” the science and technology minister, Raid Fahmi, told The Guardian……………..

 

Iraq’s fragile security environment is one of the concerns raised amid talks of a nuclear Iraq.

Iraq flags desire to resume nuclear power

October 29, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Iraq, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons