Officials said it showed Iran's nuclear plans were on track despite sanctions aimed at forcing it to curb uranium enrichment which many countries fear is aimed at developing atomic weapons.
"This day will be remembered ... because it was the day when fuel was lowered into the core of the reactor," Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said.
Amid great media fanfare, fuel rods were transported into the reactor building in August, but they were not inserted into its core and the plant's start-up was delayed due to what were described as minor technical problems.
At a much lower-key news conference, broadcast live from the plant on Iran's the Gulf coast, Salehi said it would take a further two months to complete the process of lowering 163 fuel assemblies into the core of the reactor and running tests. He said three fuel assemblies had been inserted so far.
The Russian-built 1,000-MW plant will feed Iran's first nuclear power into the national grid early next year, he said.
The last time the Iraqis tried this, the Israelis promptly bombed the hummus out of it in Osirak in 1981. Bushehr was shut down after the revolution in 1979. Some thirty years later, Iran is trying again. Not much has changed since then, especially between Israel and Iran.
Who knows how long Bushehr will last this time?
The last time the Iranians tried this, the Israelis promptly bombed the hummus out of it in Osirak in 1981.
ReplyDeleteYou may want to correct this part of the post.
Osirak is in Iraq, and the reactor there, built during the Saddam Hussein regime, not Iran, was bombed by Israel in 1981. According to Wikipedia, the Iranian Bushehr reactor, which was shut down after the revolution, was bombed by Hussein's Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s. Israel wasn't involved and has never undertook a bombing mission to Iran.
Alright. That's an oversight, Osirak is in Iraq.
ReplyDeleteOversight?
ReplyDeleteJust like the lack of fact-checking in the entire rest of this blog.
"Fragments of Credibility".
Fuck me but you're a useless hack.
if only somebody would fuck you. then you could while away the hours at work writing love poems to your unfortunate beloved instead of trolling liberal blogs.
ReplyDeleteyou're just fucking useless.