Russia may build 7 more reactors for Iran - Russian Atomic Energy Minister

[Minstrel Boy]

RUSSIA MAY BUILD SEVEN MORE REACTORS FOR IRAN-RUSSIAN ATOMIC ENERGY MINISTER

MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia may build seven more nuclear reactors for Iran, to cost a total $10 billion, Alexander Rumyantsev, head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, has announced.

"The Iranian side is now holding negotiations with Russia and other countries over the implementation of this ambitious program," Mr. Rumyantsev said. "We believe that Iran needs such nuclear capacities to be used in its peaceful energy program."

According to the Russian official, the technological process of constructing nuclear reactors for Iran has been developed at Unit 3 of the Kalinin nuclear power plant, launched on Thursday, December 16.

"About 600 innovative technologies were used in building the Kalinin nuclear power plant's third unit. And most of them can be effectively used in the construction of the first unit of the Bushehr plant and new nuclear power stations of Iran," Mr. Rumyantsev said.
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5225037&startrow=1&date=2004-12-17&do_alert=0

And then there's this. I'm wondering - hoping? - whether "put on alert" would be better described as "deployed":

TOPOL-M REGIMENT PUT ON ALERT

VLASIKHA (Moscow Region), December 16 (RIA Novosti) - A fourth missile regiment, armed with new Topol-M silo-based missile systems, was put on alert, Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces Nikolai Solovtsov told reporters.

"I can tell you that another regiment armed with Topol-M silo-based missiles has been put on full alert," he said and added that each regiment had 10 missile systems. The Strategic Missile Force currently has 40 silo-based missile systems on alert.

He also said that the force would continue to use Voyevoda missiles for another 10-15 years.

"A combat missile system equipped with Voyevoda missiles (classified as Satan in the West) can be used for another 10-15 years," he said, and therefore the Strategic Missile Forces will continue to use them for this period."

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5218673&startrow=1&date=2004-12-16&do_alert=0

[LSdemocrat]

1. Who's ready for the Second Cold War?

[parkenyc]

2. The cold war was better

than what we have now.

[Emboldened Chimp]

8. Really? The Cold War brought us Vietnam

[NNN0LHI]

9. It brought them Afghanistan. We are even n/t

[Emboldened Chimp]

10. True, but it wasn't good for the innocents killed

no matter who's side they were on.

[NNN0LHI]

14. I never suggested it was good for the innocents killed

Just pointing out that there are no clean hands here. I just find that by the US helping bin Laden and the Afghan mujahideen drive the Soviets from Afghanistan during the 1980's eventually resulted in 9/11, and turned out to be one hell of a case of blow-back. But no one will talk about that. Especially the US media that used to be part of the phony, patriotic, rah, rah, bullshit, when the same bin Laden and the mujahideen were using US supplied Stinger shoulder launched missiles to terrorize the Soviet forces there.

Don

[Kingshakabobo]

4. I thought Bush looked in to Putin's soul?

WTF did he see?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. His mirror image?

:shrug:

They are at odds over who has the right to screw with the Ukraine election. Two spoiled children with scary toys at their disposal.

[VegasWolf]

3. awol doesn't have the resources for a real war, he can't even handle

a fake one. All he could do would be to shoot nukes and he's
stupid enough to do so.

[agincourt]

6. Thank God crusader Hee Haw won the election!!!!!!!!!

I feel so much safer now, whoopeeeee!!!!

[teryang]

7. The Russian nuclear program for Iran is a strategic threat

...but not in the way customarily thought. The emergence of a nuclear power infrastructure (at a bargain price it appears) means that the standard of living of will be improved throughout its grid and outside the grid, life and commerce will benefit by the presence of alternative energy sources freeing up conventional energy. Redundance also generates economic strength and resilience. From electrical power comes economic power, from economic power, political power.

Power generating capital infrastructure is the subject of belligerent American policies disguised as "weapons proliferation issues" or "terrorism issues."

[bemildred]

15. Seems like a big "Fuck You" to PNAC.

The Eurasian powers seem to be circling the wagons around Iran.
Maybe they don't want us to destroy their oil production like we
have already done to Iraq?

[CHIMO]

11. Wonder If

GE & Bechtel and others aren't thinking about these contracts.
All it would need is the neo-cons to be out.

Well Rummy would have to go.

Who is behind the curtain?

[Deja Q]

12. Well, depending on how Iran treats Russia return, maybe we'll have learned

The US went buddy-buddy on Russia in the past and then ditched them sooner than you can say "too expensive". (e.g. the US plan to help Russia disarm and get rid of their nukes)

Things are getting veddy veddy interesting. But stupid.

[GHOSTDANCER]

13. O snaps.... Isreal better not touch those things either.

or it's on like Donkey Kong Biatch.... Puti Poot has made it very clear that fuqin with the Russian econnomy is not so smart..

[NNN0LHI]

16. Wonder why our liberal media does not touch this one? n/t