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Nonproliferation is a disguised antinuclear energy effort

…rs I did not put word in your mouth, I asked you to state your position on Iran if Iran wasn’t in the NPT. You failed to do so, Brian. What I’m saying is that I’m for world wide unilateral disarmament. But in the context of the world today, it’s sort of stupid for Iran not to have nukes. My positions still hold. The UN actually doesn’t have the ‘right’ to tell people what to do in terms of their energy policy. Iran is caught between the NPT and cl…

Intriguing Perspective on Iran's Current Economic and Social Situation

…ia outlets, I highly recommend Oil and social gains: WHY U.S. IS TARGETING IRAN. After reading that blog I realized why I had mentally equated the US treatment of Iran with its treatment of Cuba – both seem to have the same root cause. In both cases, a revolutionary regime came into power that nationalized assets that had been the legal possessions of large, politically connected corporations with long memories. In both cases, the revolutionary re…

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Sad-ending story of EBR-II told by three of its pioneers

…s and (satellite & spy plane) info to Saddam and banned weapon delivery to Iran. So Iran had to fight Saddam off with inferior weapons, which did cost them nearly half a million deaths. Not strange they want advanced weapons since then. Bas Brian, “like nothing better than to work on a new medical isotope production reactor” We upgraded our reactor in Petten recently, may be they have a position there. Regarding 20% enrichment by Iran: I have not…

Harvard International Review on Iran's nuclear motives

…After writing about Iran’s motivations for atomic energy independence, I came across the following article in the online edition of the Harvard International Review – Forced to Fuel – http://hir.harvard.edu/articles/1294/ which discusses, with more detail and rigor – the current electrical power supply situation in Iran….

President Ahmadinejad of Iran Asserts His Country's Nuclear Rights

This afternoon (September 17, 2005) President Ahmadinejad of Iran spoke emphatically to the United Nations, telling the assembled body that his country had a right to use nuclear energy. He also stated what should be obvious to any careful observer – though his country currently exports oil, it will not last much longer. The New York Times has a good article about the speech titled Iran’s Leader Refuses to End Nuclear Effort (Note: the link will…

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Does “highly” enriched uranium make it easier to build more compact reactors?

…Mosaddeq at the request of the UK, which wanted to protect its control of Iranian oil through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. I would not defend any country that actually did the things that Iran has been accused of doing, but I am not sure how much of the list that you provided is true and how much is the result of the demonization campaign. Remember, I was a military officer for nearly 30 years and have carried a military ID since I was 17 years…

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Nova’s “Uranium – Twisting the Dragon’s Tail”

…el has never admitted having nuclear weapons. True Israel saber rattles at Iran, but Iran is a large, ppotentially powerful and wealthy nation, which has frequently in the past called for the distruction of Israel. This is not a threat of agressive war nad against Israel? Rod Adams @Charles Barton “The Jews” and Israel are not synonyms. poa Well…..we can’t blame the oil companies when cluster bombs are dropped on civilian populations, or molotov…

Question from a reader – Difference in material between reactors and weapons

…ran and Russia for Russia to provide enriched uranium fuel for reactors to Iran in exchange for Iran giving up its indigenous enrichment program. Atomic’s Answer Though Iran has some troubling characteristics and its leadership is not what Americans would choose, it is a sovereign nation with a long and distinguished history. Its government is even democratically elected, even if the political system is quite different from ours. Iran’s leaders ar…

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Clean energy, sustainable energy – both terms include nuclear energy

…in the mass media outlets, “nuclear” is only heard in relation to Iran and Iranian nuclear weapons; Iran‘s “nuclear program”; “nuclear arms race”, “nuclear bomb”. While I have a feeling most people do, on some level, understand the difference between nuclear weapons and nuclear power, it’s all getting lumped in which enrichment and bomb production. It goes like this: Iran argues it doesn’t want to rely on another country for its fuel, but it can’t…

Who fights energy abundance? Why?

…of these products (they are not forbidden in the current int’l embargo on Iran). The Saudis do indeed see Iran as a competitor for oil export markets. It’s applied, or tried to apply pressure on India, another big important of Iranian oil, and has, along with the US tried to sabotage the building of the “Peace Pipeline” that is supposed to export Iranian natural gas to both Pakistan and India. So “yuck” on our policy, supported bi-partsianly, by…

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Risks to American nuclear workers from “nonproliferation” excesses

…in weapons. In fact, there are also plenty of reasons for traditional anti-Iran nations like Israel and Saudi Arabia to oppose Iran’s commercial nuclear interests with as much fervor as opposing any weapons interests. They would prefer for Iran to burn its oil and gas rather than selling it into the international market. Everyone who follows energy should know that Saudi Arabia has long competed against Iran in the oil and gas market; not everyone…

Carl Pope (Executive director of the Sierra Club) – Let's duke it out. Your fantasy energy supplies versus mine

…uclear power plants would have any positive effect on a confrontation with Iran. As I have expressed a number of times on this blog, I think Iran has a right to develop a complete nuclear industry. Not only that, I believe that they have adequate motivation to do so without any assumption that they are interested in using nuclear weapons. They have a very young and growing population with significant domestic energy needs that are currently suppli…

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