Russia Set To Build Eight Nuclear Power Plants In Iran

[dixiegrrrrl]

This will explode more than a few heads.

"......the Eurasian crescent of Russia and China would be made all that much stronger if the two nations had a toehold on the Straits of Hormuz, and were able to shut traffic - either tanker or military, with the US Fifth Fleet located in Bahrain - into the Gulf at their bidding.

Which is why it was not surprising that not even 24 hours after Russia and China announced the "holy grail" energy deal, that RIA reported Russia is already preparing to lock in the Tehran regime with a deal to build not one but 8 (!) more nuclear power plants in the country.


..........Iran’s only nuclear power plant near Bushehr came online September 2011 and began operating at full capacity a year after. Moscow handed over operational control of the Russian-made plant to Iran in September last year.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-22/hot-heels-its-china-breakthrough-russia-set-build-eight-nuclear-power-plants-iran

[okaawhatever]

1. This is a dup. It is from zerohedge with it's source being a Russian gov't owned site. We're

better than this at DU. We want factual information.

[Octafish]

3. Reuters good enough?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/22/uk-iran-nuclear-russia-plants-idUKKBN0E21GJ20140522

Myself, I consider their associations with Carlyle Group, but most of their reportage is spot-on.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Thank you, Octafish.

[Octafish]

2. Gosh. There's a target of opportunity for anyone wanting to start World War III.

Poor Iran. It may yet become the glowing parking lot of rightwing dreamers.

[RobertEarl]

6. It's ok, Octafish

I've been told here on DU that even when one of the plants blows sky-high, there is nothing to worry about. That it only helps the nuke industry to be worried that a blown up plant could kill anything.

Why, just look at Chernobyl, only a few people died and none in Japan. They say. TMI? No problem. No one even caught a cold there.

But one old hippie claimed: "A hard rain's gonna fall". So there is that, eh?

[hunter]

5. If Iran has nuclear power plants then they don't have to burn gas for their own power...

...which maybe means more gas for Russia's Gazprom to sell to nuclear-adverse regions of Western Europe.

Clever, but not the sort of outcome any progressive person would choose.

Nobody has figured out how to run a high energy industrialized consumer society without fossil fuels or nuclear power, not even in places with large hydro-power resources. (From an environmentalist perspective dams suck anyways.)

Even if wind turbines and solar panels were free I don't think an industrialized consumer society is possible and I'm not holding my breath for cheap fusion power.

But I do think a low energy, comfortable, non-consumer society powered entirely by renewable sources could be possible if everyone is allowed and encouraged to practice birth control.

Otherwise with modern medicine people breed and increase their population like animals, which isn't surprising because we are animals, and soon there are more of us than the natural environment can support.