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Russia supplying fuel for Iran’s nuclear reactor

Iran’s Nuclear Power Plant to be Fueled, Fox News, August 13, 2010 – by: Amy Kellogg Moscow has announced that it will start loading fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant on August 21st……according to Mark Fitzpatrick, it can’t even manufacture the fuel for Bushehr. “Only Russia can produce fuel for that reactor.  Iran doesn’t have a fuel production line.  It doesn’t have the specifications from Russia for this reactor.”….

Fitzpatrick says the spent fuel from Bushehr will go back to Russia.  but it has to cool for three years before that can happen.  One of the minor proliferation risks is that the fuel could potentially be diverted in that window.  But Bushehr is monitored by international inspectors.  More than anything, it seems, what its completion means is Iran is now able to say that it is the exclusive club of industrialized countries that has nuclear power.

Iran’s Nuclear Power Plant to be Fueled « Liveshots

August 19, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, reactor, uranium