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
