In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:11:55 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Terry Blanton wrote: > >>>Could this provide a possible explanation for why Iran may actually be >>>interested in a civilian nuclear power generation capability? >> >>A 50 MW heavy water reactor?? > >Ah. Is that what they want to build? Google describes it: > >"New satellite imagery obtained by ISIS from Space Imaging and >DigitalGlobe supports the Iranian statement and other statements of >unnamed sources that, "Iran has laid the foundations for the research >reactor at Arak," as reported by Reuters on March 3, 2005. . . . The >Europeans have offered to replace the heavy water reactor with a >light water research reactor that would be more proliferation resistant." > >I thought they wanted a conventional power reactor, which, as I said, >makes sense even though they have lots of natural gas. A 50 MW unit >has nothing to do with energy generation, as Terry points out. > >- Jed [snip] AFAIK Iran is building several reactors. The big power reactor (approx. 1 GW) is at Bushehr see (http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/bushehr-intro.htm).
Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition (capitalism) provides the motivation, Cooperation (communism) provides the means.
