Extra precautions taken in Bushehr
MOSCOW, Oct 09, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- The Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy has taken additional precautions on the site of the nuclear power plant construction in Bushehr, Iran, in connection with the U.S.-led military operation in Afghanistan. Yet the construction will go on, Minister of Atomic Energy Alexander Rumyantsev told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
More than 1,000 Russian specialists are building the nuclear power plant in Iran, the minister said. "We will have to recall the specialists and ask Iran to delay the contract only if the hostilities broaden and endanger human lives," he noted. So far the Bushehr infrastructure and materials are under sufficient protection.
Terrorist attacks can hardly harm the Busherh power plant and other nuclear power plants designed by Russia. "They will survive even if a plane drops on them," the minister said. Security systems will be further upgraded. Physicists of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy are thinking about instruments "for the detection of terrorists," which may be used everywhere in future, Rumyantsev remarked.
By Veronika Voskoboinikova |
