It might be a paradox when Iran’s announcement of having inserted the first self-fabricated fuel rod for the US-built 40-plus-year-old Tehran Research Reactor (which is supposed to produce nothing but isotopes for medical purposes) must be considered a confidence building measure. But it certainly is. It is the final step in the (peaceful) nuclear fuel [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tehran Research Reactor’
Confidence Building
Posted in IAEA, Iran, tagged IAEA, LEU, Tehran Research Reactor, Yukiya Amano on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Resuming the Talks
Posted in IAEA, Iran, NPT, P5+1, tagged Bushehr nuclear plant, Catherine Ashton, Eric A. Brill, Flynt Leverett, hypocrisy, ISIS, LEU, medical isotopes, Safeguards Agreement IAEA-Iran, Tehran Research Reactor, UN Charta, Vienna Talks on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Update below. Finally, Tehran has positively responded to a request, or invitation, from Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, to revive talks in Vienna on the nuclear issue. The meeting is supposed to be held on November 15-17. Another swap proposal is expected. As a matter of fact, the American President Barack Obama wasn’t [...]
Finally, a Swap Deal
Posted in Brazil, IAEA, Iran, P5+1, Turkey, USA, tagged crippling sanctions, LEU, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, medical isotopes, Obama administration, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, swap deal, Tehran Research Reactor on May 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It has become clear soon after the failed Geneva Talks of October last year that the P5+1 swap proposal for most of Iran’s low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Russia with the vague hope of receiving fuel rods from France for its research reactor in Tehran somewhere down the road had never been serious. In particular, Iran’s defeated presidential [...]
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