Fueling Bushehr: Did Russia Light Iran’s Nuclear Fuse?

Ariel Cohen / August 17, 2010

According to The Wall Street Journal’s announcement, Moscow will start to load fuel into Tehran’s first nuclear power plant at Bushehr on Saturday, August 21. Moscow also guaranteed a 10 year supply of the fuel to the reactor.

From the moment the first drop of fuel is loaded, the plant will be considered a nuclear-energy installation as defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency. And the ayatollahs will have the potential to produce the plutonium necessary for an atomic bomb, experts say.

Additionally, “Bushehr gives Iran the pretext for needing uranium enrichment,”  says Jack Spencer, The Heritage Foundation’s nuclear energy expert. According to Spencer: (more…)