Iran’s new nuclear reactor raising concerns among Western nations
OCT 26, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024775
Los Angeles Times : Iran has begun the weeks-long process to fuel its controversial Bushehr nuclear power plant, scheduled to start generating electricity sometime early next year. The 1000-megawatt plant has been under construction since 1979. Although Iran insists the reactor is to be used for civilian purposes only, officials from the US, Europe, and Israel worry that Iran will use it to produce atomic weapons by extracting plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel rods.
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