The nuclear fuel shipment from Russia will now enable Iran to fulfill its long-cherished dream of starting the Bushehr light-water reactor next year.

The deputy chief of Atomic Energy of Iran Mohammad Saeedi told the media that Russia’s move to ship the nuclear fuel for the nation’s Bushehr plant would facilitate close ties between the two nations on all fronts. Incidentally, the nuclear fuel shipment from Russia became a reality following a clean chit to Iran from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) stating that the Islamic nation had been honest about its uranium enrichment activities.

While the US too has expressed its happiness over the shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran and along with Russia feel that henceforth Iran would no longer require continuing with its uranium enrichment activities, on Tuesday Iran once again rejected the international demand to give up its uranium enrichment program.

Contrary to the US and Russian expectations, Iran has said that it was determined to continue with its uranium enrichment activities at another facility at Natanz with a view to supply nuclear fuel to another under construction 360 MW light-water nuclear facility at Darkhovin.

In November this year, Iran had claimed to have attained a landmark in uranium enrichment program stating that it had 3,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges fully operating at Natanz.

It may be mentioned here that the number 3,000 is a usually accepted number for a nuclear enrichment program that is beyond the experimental stage and can be used as a base for industrial-scale program. Low level uranium enrichment is used to provide nuclear fuel, while it can be used to manufacture deadly weapons following further improvement.

Now, what is significant is that Iran has reiterated its plans to develop its uranium enrichment program to up to 54,000 centrifuges at Natanz! It has said that doing so is completely within its to follow the uranium enrichment to manufacture fuel under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

 

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