Nuclear Iran
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Since the mid 1990s, Russia has been helping to construct a light-water reactor in the Iran port of Busher. But this has become more and more cast against a politically charged background as the west insists Iran is driving for a nuclear weapons programme. Indeed, the country possesses uranium mines, and has built uranium enrichment centrifuges and a heavy water reactor, both of which are roads to uranium or plutonium based weapons programmes. But Russia is keen to build more reactors in Iran despite the political maelstrom, but is unsure how to proceed given Teheran’s on and off cooperation with international bodies.
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Mere days after supplying Iran with the final batch of uranium it needs to bring the Russian built reactor in Bushehr Iran online, Moscow has denounced Tehran for constantly flexing its new nuclear muscle in the form of indigenous uranium enrichment and developing rocket and missile technologies.
Disputes holding up the completion by Russia of Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr have been resolved, the head of Russian state contractor Atomstroiexport said Thursday.
NEW YORK - A Vienna-based Russian diplomat involved in nuclear negotiations denied on Sunday Iran's claim that Russian nuclear fuel was ready to be sent to Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, RIA Novosti reported.
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