Iran – First Atomic Power Plant

Russia has made an official announcement that atomic fuel will be loaded into the Bushehr, a civilian nuclear power plant facility in Iran on August 21. The loading of fuel is a necessary step for getting the reactor started, a process that will take between two and three weeks. Sergei Novikov, a spokesman of Rosatom, the Russian atomic energy corporation, said that this will be an “irreversible step”.

After the fuel has all been loaded, the Bushehr will be certified as no longer in its testing phase and physical start-up has begun. This phase lasts at least two months. October is supposed to be the month the first reactions are started. Ali Akbar Salehi, head agency head of Iran’s atomic energy company, said that in the fall, a formal inauguration for the facility will be held. This will most likely be at the end of September or beginning of October, as this is when the fuel is received at the “heart of the reactor”.

Here is what other people are saying about Iran:

Stephen Zunes: Hikers in Iran

It has now been more than a year since Iranian authorities seized three Americans — Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal — in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan and falsely accused them of espionage on behalf of the US government.

Publish Date: 08/13/2010 12:12

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-zunes/hikers-in-iran_b_680816.html

- BASIL & SPICE OPINION – IRAN 2010: Face To Face With Ahmadinejad

President Obama’s national security advisor, retired Marine Corps General Jim Jones, recently presented his views of the situation with Iran. I am sure the general was a fine Marine who has served his country long and well. …

Publish Date: 08/13/2010 7:50

http://www.basilandspice.com/journal/iran-2010-face-to-face-with-ahmadinejad.html

Iran's Nuclear Plant To Start Next Week, Russia Says

MOSCOW — Russia will load fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant next week despite US demands to prevent Iran obtaining nuclear energy until the country proves that it’s not pursuing a weapons capacity, officials said Friday.

Publish Date: 08/13/2010 9:27

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/13/irans-nuclear-plant-to-st_n_681090.html

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