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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (436)	11/19/2001 11:37:12 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

RUSSIAN NUKE REACTOR LEAVES FOR IRAN November 19, 2001 The Middle East Newsline reports: “Iran is bracing for delivery of its first nuclear reactor. A nuclear reactor has been placed on a freighter for delivery to Iran. The 317-ton reactor left St. Petersburg on Friday and is meant for Iran's nuclear plant at Bushehr. The reactor was completed in the Izhora factory in the Russian city. ‘The light-water reactor of the WWER type, built at St. Petersburg's Ishora plant over a course of three years, will be assembled [after arrival in Iran],’ Viktor Koslov, an official of the official Atomstroiexport nuclear construction company, said. Russian officials said the body of the cylindrical reactor would arrive in Bushehr in about a month. The reactor is scheduled for completion by the end of 2003. In 1995, Moscow and Teheran signed an estimated $800 million contract for the construction of the Bushehr reactor. After the arrival of the nuclear reactor, Iran and Russia are set to launch negotiations over the purchase of a second reactor by Teheran…”