As predicted in a post below, Iran is using the cover of Gaza and was caught removing spent fuel from the Russian reactor that had been signed over to it.
Most people believe Iran is so significantly behind in the spent fuel enrichment process, so this matters little. However, the comment that was given to the press by the security officer at the site was rather interesting in its bluntness.
“Pay no attention. Everything is under control here.”
“That is exactly what I would say if I was up to no good…
Here are excerpts quoted from Reuters in the Chicago Tribune….
The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report two days ago on Iran’s nuclear program that fuel was unloaded from the Bushehr plant in October and transferred to a spent fuel pond. Russia is required to import the spent fuel back into its country.
It was plugged into Iran’s national grid in September 2011. it reached 100% just months ago, August 30th. Iran did not give a reason for this past Friday’s fuel removal at the 1,000-megawatt reactor near the Gulf city of Bushehr. A diplomat familiar with the issue said it meant the plant was shut down.
Early last year, Iran said it was having to remove fuel for tests.
Mark Fitzpatrick, a nuclear expert at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think-tank, said that early fuel removal at Bushehr in the “worst case” might provide weapons-usable plutonium.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s envoy to the IAEA, suggested “It is a “very normal technical procedure (during the transfer) … to make sure every safety aspect is taken into consideration,” he told Reuters, without giving details.
Bottom line: a nuclear plant that has been under construction for 37 years, finally goes on line 2 months ago; within months it apparently gets shut down, and while all eyes are on Gaza, the spent fuel is removed under only Iranian supervision….
Of course it could be nothing to worry about…. but on the other hand, it could also be that the timing of Gaza’s rocket attacks upon Israel, was anything but randomly decided.
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November 20, 2012 at 6:00 pm
delacrat
You are surrounded by nuclear reactors at Peach Bottom, Salem NJ, Three Mile Island and Limerick, PA. So don’t $6!+ your pants over one on the other side the planet .
November 21, 2012 at 2:52 am
kavips
How many of these reactors surrounding us, are owned by Iran?
lol. I think my worry is well founded… 🙂
November 21, 2012 at 10:33 am
delacrat
You realize you’re regurgitating the same weapons-of-mass-destruction claptrap that got over 4,400 US service killed in Iraq.
Why aren’t 4,400 dead enough for you ?
November 22, 2012 at 3:30 am
kavips
Actually no. You are jumping to conclusions. I am only saying “watch out”… Starting now, we have the known possibility of a dirty bomb going off anywhere in the US, utilizing some of this spent fuel… Hopefully we can trust the Iranians to watch over it, so such a thing won’t happen. If they do or don’t, it is entirely up to them. We are powerless to do anything about it.
November 24, 2012 at 1:14 pm
delacrat
You have not presented any evidence that Iran is motivated to do a dirty bomb in the US. Assuming and insinuating something does not make it so.
November 24, 2012 at 8:01 pm
kavips
Exactly.
But at what point in a sneak attack, does one become aware he is under attack? All I said, was they have their fingers on spent fuel.