…0. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/11/14/world/main318030.shtml Though Iran does not publish much information about its finances, simple math shows that they could have accumulated a substantial cash balance, especially when that amount is compared to the amount that they would have expected to accumulate if oil prices had remained in the already profitable range of $22-28 per barrel that was the established goal as recently as 4 years ago. Ir…
…l production represented 60% of the national income. That monetary flow has virtually disappeared. Al-Dhahrani has also indicated that he believes that Bahrain has traditional and important ties with its near neighbor in Iran and that Iran’s nuclear energy program is peaceful and not a threat to its neighbors. That statement is worth noting, especially given the importance of bases in Bahrain to the US military presence in the Gulf….
…w deadline of November 24, 2014 for the finalization of an agreement about Iran’s nuclear energy development. Iran has stated that it needs 190,000 SWU (separative work units) per year to fuel its reactor in Bushear, the Tehran reactor used to produce medical isotopes, and its research reactor in Arak. That amount of enrichment capacity for those three identified reasons seems reasonable based on the following quote from the World Nuclear Associat…
…en still vague for us) military ambition invest in NPP’s. India, Pakistan, Iran had to follow Israël and Pakistan. Now Saudi Arabia follows their enemy Iran. Etc. An NPP delivers them atomic know how and status … Let’s say … Solar power … you can install it for … fifty cents a watt … You still cannot run an urban environment or factories with Solar power. There is simply not enough there to do the job…. Last year solar delivered ~5.3% of all…
…togenetic effects of high level natural radiation on Ramsar inhabitants in Iran. Chromosome aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes of individuals living in high background radiation areas of Ramsar, Iran. A third is only available as a conference proceeding with no on-line links (“Cytogenetic studies of inhabitants of some high natural radiation areas of Ramsar, Iran,” T.Z. Fazeli, R.Gh. Assaei, M. Sohrabi, A. Heidary, R. Varzegar, F. Zakeri,…
…ts by various countries, like Turkey, Brazil, Russia and France, to ensure Iran had access to international research reactor fuel markets were repeatedly rebuffed by Iran and/or P5 UN security council members. And building several deep underground enrichment facilities certainly appears to an outside observer to be a disproportionate response to the lack of fuel for research reactors that don’t exactly need fresh fuel in large volumes or frequency…
…nded by US military bases and the US Gulf fleet (which shot down a regular Iranian airliner killing few hundred Iranians). In addition US partner Israel that killed Iranian scientists and started several wars already… Taken into account this history with US, it is not strange that Iran spends lots of money to arm itself against a possible attack by US. Hence they have a NPP, do enrichment, etc. About 15years ago, I traveled around in Iran during…
…ntentions (March 12, 1995) Reza Amrollahi announced that the first unit of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power station, a 1,000 megawatt pressurized water reactor, would be operational in four years. Under an $800 million agreement signed in January, Russian companies would complete the reactor, which was started in 1974 by German firms. Iran is a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty with full rights to develop peaceful applications of nuclear energ…
…r pushing another civilian nuclear cooperative agreement with a state like Iran the way we did in 1957. Most people don’t know it, but the nuclear cooperative agreement that was largely responsible for launching Iran’s nuclear activities today began with a nuclear cooperative agreement that did not even have a hearing, never mind a vote. It certainly did not lay down conditions to get Iran to foreswear making nuclear fuel or to open up for inspect…
…o Iran as an example of why the NRDC was worried about that effect. Aside: Iran is on solid intellectual and legal ground in its assertion that it has a treaty based right to develop nuclear technology, including enrichment technology. Like Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Egypt and Jordan, Iran also has many sound logical reasons for wanting to develop a fully capable indigenous industry while it still has a means to finance that development through oil…
…r, Mr Adams at least is reading about Kermit Roosevelt’s Operation Ajax in Iran in 1953, so hope springs eternal. Iranian nukies with good English do not contribute to Anglo pro-nuke blogs, I wonder why? jmdesp If being pro-nuclear is part of a package deal, why did quite a few people change camp ? Does it sound like Lovelock the author of the well-known “Gaia theory” is part of the pro-nuclear package ? (he didn’t change camp, he was pro-nuclear…
…eading a March 28, 2015 New York Times article titled No. 2 Negotiators in Iran Talks Argue Physics Behind Politics. Mr. Moniz, who was born in 1944 in Fall River, Mass., got hooked on science as a high school student in the post-Sputnik era of the late 1950s and early 1960s. After attending Boston College, he earned a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford and then he joined the faculty at M.I.T., where he fell in with a group of physicis…
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