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    Iran reloads fuel into Bushehr n-plant

    Moscow, April 8 (IANS) Iran Friday began reloading nuclear fuel into the reactor of its Bushehr power plant, Xinhua reported.

    The refuelling is being carried out after a series of checks completed on the plant, said Russian state-run contractor Atomstroyexport, which is carrying out the task.

    'On April 8, 2011, loading of fuel into the core began at Bushehr,' the company said in a statement, adding all operations are being carried out as per schedule agreed with Iran.

    To ensure safety, it was necessary to remove the fuel from the reactor earlier, as experts had found small metal pieces in a cooling system, it said.

    It said the Bushehr plant has fully complied with the nuclear non-proliferation regime and international laws. It, however, didn't say when the plant would be commissioned.

    The construction of the plant started in 1975 by German companies. However, the work was halted after the US imposed an embargo on hi-tech machinery supplies to Iran after the 1979 revolution. In 1998, Russia had signed a contract with Iran to complete the construction.

    In February this year, upon Russia's request, Iran temporarily removed the fuel from the reactor core in order to conduct a number of tests and carry out technical work.

     

    52 comments

    • fast on Sunday  •  1 year 1 month ago
      As usaul our fearless leader is on vacation. Hope and Change baby
      • DONALD N 1 year 1 month ago
        The obama's milking the system. Its fun spending other people's money. They still haven't worked a day in their lives. Thats why they are good role models for their people. See what you can accomplish without hard work or intelligence! The only leader that has had more vacation days then days spent running the country.
      • RaptureHappy 1 year 1 month ago
        And he has the audacity to tell us to get used to high gas prices and dump our cars and buy better gas mileage ones. Obama's failed stimulus money could have bought millions of Americans better gas mileage cars, not to mention converting our entire economy to a natural gas one with all cards converted over where we would now have a booming economy. Now we have to pay back the failed stimulus money
      • Red White and So Blue 1 year 1 month ago
        I agree with all three of you. As for Donald's comment, hey, you're right; it's in his blood. He's merely showing the bros how to milk a bigger cow. A great model for what has been a multigenerational parasitic drain on the American economy. Increasingly more takers than givers, more parasites than producers.
    • JustAGuy  •  1 year 1 month ago
      Everything is deteriorating on Obama's watch, both domestically and internationally. And what does Obama do about it? Go on vacation.....AGAIN!
      • Tom 1 year 1 month ago
        If you're depending on the MSM, you haven't an idea how far things really have deteriorated. The president of the United States told his own citizens not to take precautions, the nuke fallout from Japan is insignificant. He's guaranteed the deaths of an uncountable number of people for that reason.
        Got a longtime nuke engineer/consultant in the family. He took one look at the first video, said this was a reactor explosion, the fallout will reach the US in a few days, buy iodine, stop drinking milk NOW.
        MSM produced teams of paid liars lying every step of the way until they couldn't cover it up any more, tho' they're still lying with every word about the seriousness of the situation. Yes, radioactivity has been in the weather system since that day. No, there isn't anything "safe." At least some iodine will make it less easy for the radioactive stuff to lodge in your thyroid. Everything else is useless. Yes, it's likely millions will die from cancer and/or "Gulf War Syndrome" symptoms for years to come.
      • DONALD N 1 year 1 month ago
        Vacations -- Who said the affirmative action program for minorities didn't produce results?
      • wowtrue 1 year 1 month ago
        Tom, you are a brainwashed idiot. As a conservative republican your ignorance makes me sick.
    • J.P.  •  1 year 1 month ago
      Shocking! But all negative comments about what Barack H. Obama will be eraced from Yahoo in 24 hours so why I even bother is a mystery to me. Anyone for corrupt press?
      • wowtrue 1 year 1 month ago
        A comment board is not reporting or journalism. Yahoo owns the board and can delete any or all comments. In fact there were no comments allowed for a few years quite recently.
      • RaptureHappy 1 year 1 month ago
        On another site-I believe HuffPo, I had my negative comment about Dems/Obama left up, but someone--the moderator I guess--changed it to make it sound more pro-liberal and pro-Obama. Dems/liberals are the true intolerant lying fascists
      • alleycat69 1 year 1 month ago
        Jack Nicholson said it best "[They] can't handle the truth." Those who speak the truth have no agenda other than setting free the minds of people clouded in lies and deceit. Those speaking the lies however want to keep the masses under control.
    • dudley  •  1 year 1 month ago
      Obama should stop over during his vacation.
    • DONALD N  •  1 year 1 month ago
      Russia helping Iran with their nuclear weapons program. Real smart move giving your muslim enemy the weapons to destroy you.
      • wowtrue 1 year 1 month ago
        There are lots of countries with nuclear power and no nuclear weapons program. Iran has centrifuges so it doesn't need the reactor to produce weapons material. Uranium weapons are much easier to build anyway.
      • AC7880 1 year 1 month ago
        We have no room to talk in the USA. We put a Muslim or Muslim lover in the white house.
    • andy  •  1 year 1 month ago
      Everyone of course knows that the Arab nations are armed almost exclusively with Soviet weaponry right? Everyone of course remembers with whom the Arab nations sided in WWII, and then the "Cold War" right? I hope this doesnt seem like a "development" to you.
      • Jim 1 year 1 month ago
        All that is true, yet the Russians invaded Afghanistan and wreaked havoc on the Arabs' fellow muzzies. I thought they never forgot such atrocities. The muzzies are sneaky and use their enemies' short-sightedness and freedoms against them. That's why I say the Russians are so blinded by the money they're receiving, they can't see the impending dirty bomb that is bound to hit Moscow. They are fools.
      • Tom 1 year 1 month ago
        Did you know that U.S. arms have a 30% failure rate? But the Russians' Fred-Flintstone technology always works? And that the only reason the U.S. "NWO" hasn't smashed Iran's people to bits is because the Iranis bought some Sunburn missiles, each of which can take out a whole destroyer and can't be stopped?
        I think this nuke problem is a fake in the first place. What stopped anybody from giving Iran a few nukes, same as the U.S. armed to Israel?
      • Jim 1 year 1 month ago
        Yeah Tom, that Fred Flintstone technology worked well in Chernobyl. Oh by the way...

        From now on India will be buying American weapons. The USA and India came to such an agreement during Hillary Clinton���s visit to Delhi on July 20, 2009.

        India has been using Russian and Soviet weapons for 50 years. The relations between Russia and India, including those in the field of military and technical cooperation, have been worsening recently. India turned its attention to other partners and entered into transactions with Israel, France and other manufacturers of military hardware.

        Russian military analysts say that the principal reason for India���s decision to develop defense cooperation with the USA lies in Russia���s numerous violations in execution of contract terms with India. India was outraged when Russia delayed the modernization of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier, as Russia did previously with the delivery of warships and submarines.

        A new scandal arose several days before Clinton���s visit to Delhi. It proved that Russia had sold India defective air-to-air rockets.

        Up to 50 percent of the rockets were reportedly defective. Therefore, the question of whether India continues to buy weapons from Russia remains open after the nation signed the defense cooperation agreement with the United States.
    • JohnK  •  1 year 1 month ago
      Construction began in 1975, and is being completed by the Russians.

      OOOOOK. No need to worry about the safety of THAT reactor.
    • Bgates  •  1 year 1 month ago
      We can't take it out now! It would prevent women from getting important cancer screenings, old people will have to eat cat food, old people will die...

      Sorry, wrong topic! LOL!
    • andy  •  1 year 1 month ago
      The Europeans (Rome) scattered the Jews throughout the world. Over the years, they were objects of persecution in Russia, France, and Germany. The Europeans (UN) then repatriate them almost 2000 years later. They now occupy a small piece of "resource free" land, surrounded by hundreds of millions of adversaries (to be kind) with huge amounts of wealth and large amounts of high demand resources. Every nation on Earth is courting the oil rich neighbors. Their last sympathetic ally is now turning its back on them (because only a "friend with weed, is a friend indeed"). Forces are now gathering and arming, all the way up to nuclear. These forces have an apocalyptic vision of the world.

      Seems like Ive read this somewhere?
    • Harrison J. Bounel  •  1 year 1 month ago
      Are you Russians completely crazy, or what? You know Iran suffered an earthquake like a decade ago. Did you know some 70,000+ people died in Bam, Iran from that earthquake on account of every structure in that town was made of mud? What can an 8th century goat herding, opium-growing throwback do with nuclear power besides blow up Israel?

      serious question.
    • killerbee  •  1 year 1 month ago
      The REVELATION calls for a joint Russian\Iranian attack on Israel. NO SURPRISE
      with this story. It WILL NOT end well for Russia-Iran. COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS!!!
    • John  •  1 year 1 month ago
      The Russians will cease to be a sovereign country in a few generations due to declining birth rates and Chinese and muslim encroachment. I guess they just don't care.
    • Yoadrian Balboa  •  1 year 1 month ago
      This is the leadership america wanted and elected, I did everything in my power to try to educate people against voting for this lemon but we lost. I knew this would happen, how could anybody not see this coming? This guy stands and reads from his teleprompter, he doesn't have the slightest clue what he's even talking about. He's a perfect representation of the people who put him there, ignorant, arrogant, and gluttonous. You got what you wanted america now live with it!
    • OrneryEagle  •  1 year 1 month ago
      This is not good, what will Obummer do now? If he won't stand-up to Libya, he will be jumping on AF One to hide if it comes to standing up to Putin?
    • thirdvacav  •  1 year 1 month ago
      This is why un sanctions don't work and why the un is totally useless.
    • Hostile Knowledge  •  1 year 1 month ago
      Putin is loading this nuclear fuel into the reactor with his bare hands.

      What a man!
    • Eddie  •  1 year 1 month ago
      The biblical alignment of Persia (Iran) and Gog (Russia) shown in chapters 35 thru 39 of the prophet Ezekiel, is like reading todays news...And who would have imagined in their wildest dreams, we in this country would have an illegal Muslim as president...No scum bucket Hollywood screen writer could compose a script as wild as this...and I know the total outcome...This is not fiction, nor fantacy...Bless the G-d of Israel, The one True G-d of all creation, allowed me to see the ending...Even G-ds Chosen, who are Jews, unless eyes have been opened by the True Messiah of Israel, "Jesus", they also are unable to see the ending...To be enlightened, I suggest you hurry to the nearest Bible Believing Church, and get all the answers...Amen and Amen
    • Jim T  •  1 year 1 month ago
      Russia is such a brainless country....Yes they are STUPID. The people they are helping in Iran will at the first opportunity put their women in Burkas and behead any who don't convert.

      When is Russia going to get a brain...and then their is China...they sit back and do nothing.
    • Thomas  •  1 year 1 month ago
      OBAMA One Big A$$ Mistake America
    • asdasdsada  •  1 year 1 month ago
      Hey, why is everyone so alarmed with this development? When Obama returns from his vacation, he will call the Russians and ask them to stop loading the fuel. Poof, problem solved.