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I agree with you on nucleavage issue! (to only)

Only"Iran", even you and I can agree on something!

Forget the story, check out the anchorwoman....

wow...nice!!!

How much

I wish some body could find out how much this old soviet style nuclear plant costed so much? seriously, all those of you who are constantly obsesed with pahlavi money, ever wondred how mcuh this thing costed so far?

the timing

does the timing of this has anything with the talk of Israel's attack on Iran?

was this meant to challenge or block the effort by israeli air force?

"Mobarak Basheh,

we are somebody". But this is what Trita Parsi from NIAC wrote on Salon.com website:

Friday, Aug 13, 2010 09:30 ET

• Salon

Obama administration officials, as well as U.S. lawmakers and European diplomats, passionately made the argument this spring that tough sanctions on Iran were necessary to avoid war. But contrary to their predictions, the drumbeat for war -- particularly from Israel – has only increased since the U.N. Security Council adopted a new resolution against Tehran in June. //www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/13/trita_parsi_jeffrey_goldberg/ 

Busheher reactor is as safe as any in the west

IAEA, of which Iran is a member state, will oversee all the operational aspects of  the plant. My guess is that they have already looked at all the safety aspects of design and given it a good bill of health. Busheher reactor is as safe as any pressurized water reactor in the west and it will be operated by the brightest of bright AEOI engineers.  My money is on Anonymouse  to prove both Fred and JJ wrong.

Won't happen

The Russian mafia will never allow the facility to operate because they will loose an important bargaining chip to keep milking the IRI (and the Iranian people by extension) out of billions of dollars.  They cancelled the contract for the S-300's and took the $880.00 million that the IRI had paid them.  The reactor story will be the same thing.

یکی میمرد ز درد بی نوایی

Gourmet Launch!!!

While 60% of our people live under poverty line Russian gangs are going to celebrate with such a launch party over the billions & billionsof hard cash they have been stealing from our country for the 31 years & that is just the beginning. Read from their greedy lips: "engineers will begin loading the Bushehr reactor with fuel. However, it could be six months before the reactor is fully operational."  That simply means another long delay to make the plant @ work & requiring billions more for their gourmet launches!!!! 

Kuwait just requested an order of $900 million of defensive

missiles from the US.  Almost a trillion dollars.

Who said mullahs were not bussiness friendly!?!? They creat bussines and mollas ( no puns intended) for all, except us, Iranian people! Talk about getting the short end of the stick!!!

" The only true wisdom is in a Historical-Materialist conception of the world"

-Walter Benjamin

Chernobyl on the Persian Gulf?

While all the attention is geard towards possibility of  a military confrontation, almost on one is paying attention to the immense catastrophic potential this outdated technology will have on the environment of the Persian Gulf.

In case you've all forgotten all about the original Chernobyl disatster I just ran across this article this morning in the American news site "Counter Punch,"

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POSSIBILTY OF ANOTHER ONE IN PERSIAN GULF.

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Weekend Edition
August 13 - 15, 2010

By ROBERT ALVAREZ

It's been 24 years since the catastrophic explosion and fire occurred at Chernobyl in the Ukraine. The accident required nearly a million emergency responders and cleanup workers. According to a recent report published by the New York Academy of Medicine nearly one million people around the world have died from Chernobyl fallout.

Now we are finding that threats to human health and the environment from the radioactive fallout of this accident that blanketed Europe (and the rest of the world to a lesser extent) will persist for a very long time. There is an exclusionary zone near the reactor, roughly the size of Rhode Island (1000sq kilometers), which because of high levels of contamination,people are ostensibly not allowed to live there for centuries to come. There are also "hot spots" through out Russia, Poland Greece, Germany, Italy, UK, France, and Scandinavia where contaminated live stock and other foodstuff continue to be removed from human consumption.

My friends tell me that a growing number of Ukrainians are immigrating to Youngstown, OH ( where I grew up),Cleveland, Chicago, and other Ukrainian-American enclaves because of Chernobyl contamination threats.

Here are a few recent examples:

A fast-growing number of wild boars in Germany are having to be destroyed and disposed as radioactive wastes.

The mammal population in the exclusionary zone near the reactor is declining, despite the absence of humans, indicative of growing radiation damage to fauna and flora.

Wildfires in Russia appear to be spreading high levels of radioactive smoke from Chernobyl.

True to form, governments with major nuclear programs or ambitions are silent and are encouraging the view that it's time we forget about Chernobyl.

Robert Alvarez, an Institute for Policy Studies senior scholar, served as senior policy adviser to the Energy Department's secretary from 1993 to 1999.  www.ips-dc.org

Business of war

I don't understand why the American military industry should put an end on the presumed Iranian nuclear threat before saturating the regional market with its so-called defense goodies.   

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

That's great Anonymouse, how about it JJJ?

Oh yeah, and about the Bushehr plant, my bet is that I will run, but a couple of days later will be shut down due to technical difficulties.

Mehrdad

Let's get the text of the bet right.

1) I ____ bet that the Bushehr nuclear plant will NOT receive fuel on or before August 21st. If it receives fuel on or before August 21st I'll write a blog entitled "I was wrong" and admit my mistake.

2) I ____ bet that the Bushehr nuclear plant will be attacked on or before August 21st. If it is not attacked on or before August 21st I'll write a blog entitled "I was wrong" and admit my mistake.

Which one of the above 2 are we betting? That the plant will receive fuel on or before 8/21 or that it'll be attacked on or before 8/21? 

Everything is sacred

JJJ what are we betting on? How about an "I was wrong" blog?

Everything is sacred

Who wants to make a bet?

If the hawks in the U.S. and Israeli defense/intelligence community prevail (if they haven't already), the Bushehr plant will never produce electricity. The way they see it, the launch will be a source of pride. It will mean that Iran's nuclear industry will enter a whole new era. And for that very reason, the perfect time to bomb would be before Aug 21. Cripple it before it even starts.

I hope I'm wrong. An attack on Bushehr or other nuclear sites will cause a disaster far greater than the exaggerated threat from Iran building a nuclear bomb.

BBC's Iranian "national pride"

“ If and when the plant finally starts operating, it will be a moment of national pride, and an event Iran will no doubt celebrate as showing it can overcome international pressure and isolation, our correspondent says.”  

You said it BBC, importation of outdated dangerous Chernobyl type technology, its tools, materials and supervisory technicians is definitely a source of “national pride”.

Given the astronomical cost and the dangers it heaps on Iran and Iranians is no doubt more cause for the said “national pride”.