Iran plans more nuclear plants and unveils new hi-tech drones

Release Date: 2010-08-17

Tehran will continue uranium enrichment because the country needs it for the 20 future power plants like Bushehr, the head of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Borouujerdi said.

“We in the parliament have tasked the government with producing 20,000 megawatts of nuclear electricity,” Borouujerdi said on Sunday. “That means setting up 20 power plants like Bushehr,” Iran’s Fars news agency quoted him as saying. To supply the fuel for these power plants, Iran should carry out enrichment and “it is doing it,” he added.

Borouujerdi was responding to the statement by White House spokesman Robert Gibbs who said that Russia was providing the fuel and taking the fuel back out. According to him, that means that Tehran does not need its own enrichment capability “for a peaceful nuclear program” as it states.

Iranian media said the ongoing enrichment is intended to feed nuclear reactors that the country plans to build rather than for Bushehr. Iran’s ambassador to Moscow, Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi, also stressed on August 16 that Tehran should not stop the enrichment despite the fact that Russia is providing fuel.

Russia will deliver nuclear fuel to the first unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant on August 21, Rosatom Assistant General Director Sergey Novikov told Itar-Tass. The delivery will be a symbolic moment that ends the tests of all systems of the Bushehr plant. The work will be done under the monitoring of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The fuel will be loaded into the reactor after the Iranian nuclear watchdog agency gives its permission.

Source: Russia Today

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