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NYT: Iran suffers major setback at nuclear plant - World news - The New York Times
Iran told atomic inspectors this week that it had run into a serious problem at a newly completed nuclear reactor that was supposed to start feeding electricity into the national grid this month, raising questions about whether the trouble was sabotage, a startup problem, or possibly the beginning of the projectÂ’s end.
“It raises questions of whether Iran can operate a modern nuclear reactor safely,” he added. “The stakes are very high. You can have a Chernobyl-style accident with this kind of reactor, and there’s lots of questions about that possibility in the region.”
Its tangled history began around 1975 with a West German contract. After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the West Germans withdrew. Iraq repeatedly bombed the half-built reactor between 1984 and 1988. (of course, Republicans made sure that would never happen again with their illegal invasion of Iraq, a country that never attacked us and had no connection to 9/11, something even Bush, Cheney, Powell and Rumsfeld admit)
Iran signed a rebuilding accord with Russia in 1995 that should have had the project completed in 1999. But the plan bogged down in long delays.
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The problem for the Iranians is "science" and "mysticism" simply don't mix. When you put religious people in charge of scientific or highly technical projects, they rarely get far off the ground. I'm glad they don't trust their "liberals", probably the only group that could "make it happen".
Iran told atomic inspectors this week that it had run into a serious problem at a newly completed nuclear reactor that was supposed to start feeding electricity into the national grid this month, raising questions about whether the trouble was sabotage, a startup problem, or possibly the beginning of the projectÂ’s end.
“It raises questions of whether Iran can operate a modern nuclear reactor safely,” he added. “The stakes are very high. You can have a Chernobyl-style accident with this kind of reactor, and there’s lots of questions about that possibility in the region.”
Its tangled history began around 1975 with a West German contract. After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the West Germans withdrew. Iraq repeatedly bombed the half-built reactor between 1984 and 1988. (of course, Republicans made sure that would never happen again with their illegal invasion of Iraq, a country that never attacked us and had no connection to 9/11, something even Bush, Cheney, Powell and Rumsfeld admit)
Iran signed a rebuilding accord with Russia in 1995 that should have had the project completed in 1999. But the plan bogged down in long delays.
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The problem for the Iranians is "science" and "mysticism" simply don't mix. When you put religious people in charge of scientific or highly technical projects, they rarely get far off the ground. I'm glad they don't trust their "liberals", probably the only group that could "make it happen".