Iran pushes ahead with nuclear plant that worries West

[alp227]

Source: Reuters

Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that Western experts say could offer it a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb if it decides to make one, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday.

Iran has transported the reactor vessel - which would hold the fuel - to the heavy water plant near the central town of Arak but has not yet installed it, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report issued to member states.

"It certainly means that progress is made," one diplomat familiar with the Iranian nuclear program said, adding that several other major components for the reactor, including control room equipment, had yet to be put in place there.

The United States said Iran was in "non-compliance with its international nuclear obligations".

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-idUSBRE94L12420130522

[jessie04]

1. That's just super.

Nothing wrong with the most oppressive country in the world getting a thermonuclear device.

It's not like they threatened the countries in the area.

What could go wrong?







Pretty sure that's sarcasm

[shockedcanadian]

2. What worries me is the ever growing fear that war might break out

This is the kind of war that would bring in "contributions" from other nations who are allies with Iran (N Korea, China and Russia). At the same time Iran simply cannot be trusted with a nuclear weapon and the longer that it takes to address the more difficult it is to address.

They are steadfast on their resolution to develop this technology, what peaceful solution is there to this problem?

[John2]

3. How do you

know North Korea and Iran are not secretly trading technology already?

[kelliekat44]

4. Worried about Iran's nuke plants but not our own or those of our allies? nt