Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
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).
This is an informative article. Iran wants to produce 20% of its electricity from nuclear power. The Russians are building a ~1 GWe unit, as noted.
Honestly, I do not see how the US or any what other country can object to this. The world needs clean energy. The argument that Iran should use natural gas generators because they have lots of gas makes no sense to me. This is like saying they should not use nuclear or wind power in North and South Dakota because they have so much coal up there. Every joule of electric power produced by nuclear fission in Iran reduces global warming or frees up natural gas for export. We should encourage them to buy more nuclear plants.
Unfortunately, in North Dakota they use almost exclusively electricity from coal, even though they have enough wind to power half of the U.S.A. See:
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_profiles.cfm?sid=ND South Dakota has more hydroelectric, and a higher percent of wind power: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_profiles.cfm?sid=SD - Jed
