Iran Announces It Is Building Another Nuclear Plant
IHT article by By Nazila Fathi:
TEHRAN: Iran confirmed on Monday that it had received the first fuel shipment for its nuclear power plant at Bushehr, but also indicated for the first time that it was building a second nuclear power plant.
The revelation came in comments by Iran’s Atomic Organization, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, made to state-run television and reported by the semi-official Fars news agency. He was dismissing speculation that the arrival of the fuel would allow Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program, in Natanz.
“We are building a 360-megawatt indigenous power plant in Darkhovein,” he said, referring to a southern city north of Bushehr.
“The fuel for this plant needs to be produced by Natanz enrichment plant,” he added, Fars said.
Bushehr and Darkhovein were both projects planned before the 1979 Revolution. It was not clear how much construction had been done at Darkhovein. The location is also sometimes spelled Darkhovin, or referred to by other nearby place names, including Ahvaz, Esteghlal and Karun.
Aghazadeh said Monday that Iran needed to increase the centrifuges at the Natanz enrichment plant from 3,000 to 50,000, saying that with the current 3,000, it could only produce fuel for a 100-megawatt plant.
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When will this F’in madness stop?!? We better send them a clear message and soon..no more of this NIE bullshit! nobody with that much oil needs to build like 8 nuclear plants for energy.
December 17th, 2007 at 3:38 pmLooks like another target will be on the GPS grid.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:12 pmOne more penetrator , hold the mayo.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:38 pm