Artfldgr says:
Iran didnt suspend it, what it did was move all the research to "dual use" areas for the meantime. in this way, they can deny that they are working towards a weapon, but instead are trying to supply energy needs.
ok... ask yourself why one of the wealthiest oil countries would think that nuclear energy was cheaper than what they have in abundance?
that no one 'notices' this is a farce.
here is some info from nuclear power as energy. http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/thyd/ne161/ncabreza/sources.html
What most people don't realize is that most of what they hear are false rumors started by anti-nuclear activists.
so in essence our greenies are the ones that have kept us on oil and greenhouse gas usage for the past 40 years based on a pool of lies. they are leftists, and so they know that if the US dotted the country with lots of nuclear plants, we would get a huge boost in productivity, while mother russia would get a kick in the oil pants.
The waste nuclear power plants generate is all contained and none of it is released into the environment. This, however, does not hold true for the other major sources of power. A typical 1000-megawatt coal-burning plant emits 100,000 tons of sulphur dioxide, 75,000 tons of nitrogen oxides, and 5000 tons of fly ash into the environment per year while a typical 1000-megawatt oil-burning plant emits about 16,000 tons of sulphur dioxide and 20,000 tons of nitrogen oxides.
Iran does not care as to how much tons of stuff it spits into the air (most such states, including mother russia, are HORRIBLE on the environment. capitalists see an environment that is clean as a sourve of revenue, the others sense of what is worth is so undeveloped that they cant see this)
Because the fuel used in nuclear power plants exist in abundant supply, the price is very cheap, unlike for fossil fuels where the supply is finite and slowly diminishing. A typical fuel pellet cost about $7. This one fuel pellet has an equivalent energy of three barrels of oil, which cost $84, or one ton of coal, which cost $29. In 1993, the fossil fuels displaced by nuclear energy totaled: 470 million tons of coal and 96 million barrels of oil which translated to about $17 billion. By using nuclear energy at $7 per pellet, a savings of about $13 billion was generated in just one year.
however, Iran doesnt pay market prices for its oil or coal.
From the beginning of 1990s, Russian Federation formed a joint research organization with Iran called Persepolis which provided Iran with Russian nuclear experts, and technical information stolen from the West by GRU and SVR, according to GRU defector Stanislav Lunev [19]. He said that five Russian institutions, including the Russian Federal Space Agency helped Tehran to improve its missiles. The exchange of technical information with Iran was personally approved by the SVR director Trubnikov [19].
In 1995, Iran signed a contract with Russia to resume work on the partially-complete Bushehr plant,[20] installing into the existing Bushehr I building a 915MWe VVER-1000 pressurized water reactor, with completion expected in 2007. There are no current plans to complete the Bushehr II reactor.
In 1996, the U.S. tried, without success, to block the People's Republic of China from selling to Tehran a conversion plant. The PRC also provided Iran with gas needed to test the uranium enrichment process.
not every plant is a plant of concern though.
Lavizan was under question... and Natanz is a hardened fuel enrichment plant... it was once a secret site... (and most of these sites were being built but never reported as the contracts they signed said only when they are completed do they have to report them, so they stay in a state of never completed, and so never need to be reported and they remain secret).
most people arguing and discussing all this have no idea of what they are talking about. they dont know the difference between a breeder reactor, a heavy water reactor, an enrichment area, etc.
they dont even know the facts as to nuclear power vs nuclear bomb production.
under dual use a police officer cant arrest you for owning a mirror, a razor blade and a box of straws as drug paraphrenalia...
under dual use the inspectors cant judge anything that can be dual use as indicating they are working on something.
just like the mirror, razor blade, and straws, they are not allowed to use those things as evidence (the same game is played with biolgoical weapons factories. which is why they claim things are a pen ink factory.. why pen ink? because the ingredients are the same as those for nerve toxins... the same is true of ordering BT, and building an aerosolized weaponized version of BT, claiming its for insects, when they can switch back and forth between BT and BA at whim)
basically the argumetns are between the ignorant who think they are right becasue they cant see past what they dont know...
and the knowing and methodical, who know that publicly they cant pin them since they are being careful, but that the whole thing doesnt make much sense, unless the ignorant are wrong.
the ignorante are the masses who have empty knee jerk reactions to things, and who cant even explain cogently their position as they never actually arrived at it cogently... it felt good, so they did it.
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