Sunday, December 2, 2012

Iran Removed Nuclear Reactor Fuel to Clear Construction Debris


The director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoon Abbasi told reporters in Tehran that the country’s Bushehr nuclear power reactor was shut down in October and its fuel was removed because construction debris were found in the fuel tank. The bolts and welding material left inside the reactor had led to abnormal readings during operation.

AEOI reports that the Bushehr is now refueled and will go back online shortly.

File photo: Fereydoon Abbasi at IAEA in Vienna. September 2012. (AP/Ronald Zak)

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is how dilettantes work; they sacrifice the national treasure, which was the Iranian oil industry in order to squander the remaining part of the national capital in something which they also ruin by their own dilettantism

Anonymous said...

Damage Control.....

B.M.A said...

FULL CYCLE

IRAN NEEDS TO MASTER THE FULL NUCLEAR CYCLE-build nuclear reactors domestically devoid of any foreign help!the Russians are very unpredictable as we saw in the aviation industry when the Russian pilots MANNED .THERE WERE AIR ACCIDENTS EVERY MONTH IN IRAN but when they were chased and replaced by IRANIAN PILOTS,WE HAVE ORDER AND PEACE THERE!!.

Anonymous said...

This is what happens when you have Russian built nuclear reactors and shoddy Russian workmanship.

Anonymous said...

Iranian engineers and scientists are now indeed world class and Iran needs to have TOTAL CONTROL OVER ITS FULL NUCLEAR CYCLE with 90% plus enrichment. Iran's needs to test a nuke as soon as possible as the new Asia focused world order has changed global power balance with the majority of Asian powers like China, India, Pakistan and North Korea being declared nuclear weapons states, not to mention the pipsqueak Zionist criminal imports from Eastern Europe and US squatting in Asian/Arab Palestine.

Docseltsam said...

There are now two questions waiting for an answer:

1. How long have the removed fuel elements been irradiated? Background: If they were irradiated only a few weeks the amount of 239Plutonium in the fuel elements may be high enough to get weapons grade material. Also the proportion of 240pu is at this point low enough to get "supergrade" plutonium.

2. Will all removed fuel elements be reinserted or are there some new fuel rods? Background: Iran may be tempted to withhold some of the fuel rods to try to separate weapons grade plutonium.

Anonymous said...

Anon 12:19 AM

Propaganda Bull Crap Artist!

Anonymous said...

Anon 5:06 PM

Says by a lousy dunghead!