Here's what I don't understand - why does American government bitch about Iran's decision to build nuclear power plant, impose sanctions on Iran and scream about it at the top of their lugs.... when it's Russia that is building the nuclear power plant. Where's the logic here?

Should US threaten Russia insteead of Iran? Or America is afraid to say one bad word about Moscow?



02/ 07/ 2008


MOSCOW, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian parliament's ratification on Wednesday of an amendment to a major international treaty on nuclear security will not affect construction of a nuclear power plant in Iransenior diplomat said.

sia is building the $1 billion Bushehr facility, Iran's first nuclear power plant, in the south of the country in accordance with a 1995 contract.


"Our project in Bushehr will meet all nuclear security standards, just like [nuclear facilities] do in Russia," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak said at a parliamentary hearing.

Russia signed the UN Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material in 1980.

The treaty obliges each signatory to take appropriate steps to ensure that nuclear material is protected whether on a country's territory, on board a ship or aircraft under its jurisdiction, or being transported internationally.

States parties to the convention gathered in July 2005 to amend the document and strengthen its provisions.

The amended Convention makes it legally binding for states to protect nuclear facilities and material in civilian use, storage and transport.

It also provides for expanded cooperation between countries regarding rapid measures to locate and recover stolen or smuggled nuclear material, to mitigate any radiological consequences of sabotage, and to prevent and combat related offences.

The lower house of the Russian parliament ratified the amended document, which will take effect once it has been ratified by two-thirds of the signatories.

Russia earlier said start up tests involving nuclear fuel at Bushehr would begin this fall.

Russia delivered its eighth and final nuclear fuel shipment to Bushehr on January 28, supplying a total of 82 metric tons of low-enriched uranium to the light-water reactor.

Kislyak said Russia would not transfer to Tehran the technologies used to build and operate the plant, and the spent fuel from the Bushehr reactor will be brought back to Russia.

RIA Novosti - Russia - Russia says new nuclear security rules will not affect Bushehr

Should Chechnya get a nuclear power plant too?

I wonder why Russia is helping a nation with massive amounts of energy available to it gain access to even more. You'd think that if they truly cared about people, they'd be building nuclear reactors in 3rd world nations with desperate energy needs.

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God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

You wouldn't suggest an ulterior motive would you? No, Not our friend Boris. He just wants to spread that good ole Russian friendship.

This is the part that shows where you're ill-informed...

That means that RUSSIA was the one that enriched the uranium...NOT the Iranians...

Being able to enrich uranium means that you also have the ability to make nuclear weapons...obvious a position Russia has...

Even the United States does not have a problem with Iran having nuclear plants...AS LONG AS they get the uranium already enriched by powers that already have the nuclear technology to do so...

And that's exactly what's being done here...

It's when Iran takes any un-enriched or low-enriched uranium and tries to enrich it THEMSELVES that this becomes the issue...It will show that Iran has the capability to turn it into highly-enriched weapons-grade uranium...

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I think that we should encourage the Russians to build Iran a couple of nuclear plants. They do such a wonderful job of it:

Throw up a couple of these babies and the only problem we'd have with Iran is how tp stop then from glowing at night and screwing up our star-gazing.

I hope that you aren't traumatized by this pic of your hometown, Boris.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

There is also the problem with who gets the waste after the fuel is spent. Spent fuel (if only going through 1 cycle) can still be used to make nuclear weapons (and not just dirty bombs).

Good point...

There'd BETTER be plans for that already in place...

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Of course there are plans, Israel flys in and blows it up after they sign that $1 billion dollar check.