Nuclear Fog, Nuclear Deals, Nuclear Suspicions………..
“Iran was a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), though it had not ratified two additional protocols to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Program 93 + 2, which was designed to prevent states from developing nuclear weapons covertly, despite IAEA inspections, as Iraq was able to do prior to the Gulf War. Iran maintained that it would not ratify 93 + 2 due to it being denied civilian nuclear technology for Bushehr, despite its positive record with the IAEA. Nuclear power industry contacts between Iran and Russia were based on the inter-governmental agreements of 25 August 1992, on cooperation in the civil use of nuclear energy and in the construction of a nuclear power plant in Iran……..”
“The equipment of the Bushehr nuclear power plant is in the last stage of testing and the plant will come on stream by the end of September, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Wednesday. "Today we completed one of the most important and last tests of the nuclear plant, the Warm Water Test, before its start-up," Salehi told managers and staff of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The Warm Water Test was started on April 8, coinciding with Iran's National Nuclear Technology Day, which is the day the country celebrates its latest scientific achievements……. Moscow agreed to build the Bushehr nuclear power plant in 1995 and the project was supposed to be completed in July 1999, but the start-up of the reactor has been postponed several times. Russia denies the allegations that the delays in the start-up of the plant were politically motivated…….”
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