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Iran suffers major setback at nuclear plant
The New York Times via MSNBC ^
| February 26, 2011
| WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER
Posted on 02/26/2011 4:03:46 AM PST by John W
Iran told atomic inspectors this week that it had run into a serious problem at a newly completed nuclear reactor that was supposed to start feeding electricity into the national grid this month, raising questions about whether the trouble was sabotage, a startup problem, or possibly the beginning of the project’s end.
In a report on Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran told inspectors on Wednesday that it was planning to unload nuclear fuel from its Bushehr reactor — the sign of a major upset. For years, Tehran has hailed the reactor as a showcase of its peaceful nuclear intentions and its imminent startup as a sign of quickening progress.
The report alluded to “new information recently received,” suggesting continuing work toward a nuclear warhead.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bushehr; bushehrreactor; energy; nuclear; stuxnet
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posted on
02/26/2011 4:03:48 AM PST
by
John W
To: John W
Wouldn’t that be something if Iran nuked itself.
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posted on
02/26/2011 4:05:03 AM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, a universal license to be good. -- Hartley Coleridge)
To: John W
Sounds like a head fake to me.
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posted on
02/26/2011 4:11:57 AM PST
by
TShaunK
To: John W
And what are they going to do with the fuel? Could this be a cover story for some nefarious purpose?
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posted on
02/26/2011 4:13:31 AM PST
by
Truth29
To: TShaunK
To: John W
“Iran told atomic inspectors this week ...”
Yeah, right. Everything after that should get an eye roll.
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posted on
02/26/2011 4:17:52 AM PST
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: John W
Not a credible source. This is pure unadulterated bull droppings.
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posted on
02/26/2011 4:21:38 AM PST
by
Carley
(WISCONSIN STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN THE ARAB STREET. UGLY AND VIOLENT)
To: TShaunK
After having lived there, it is a head fake.
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posted on
02/26/2011 4:26:46 AM PST
by
mazda77
(Mike Hogan - JAX Mayor)
To: TShaunK
We were all taught to watch the body not the head.
Head goes where the trunk goes not the other way around.
Football, basketball, hockey soccer, it’s all the same game.
Stuxnet is a wonderful thing. ;-)
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posted on
02/26/2011 4:33:10 AM PST
by
Joe Boucher
((FUBO))
To: John W
The Mossad is going to be very, very busy into the foreseeable future.
To: Joe Boucher
Stuxnet is a wonderful thing. ;-)
It's the gift that keeps on giving!!
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posted on
02/26/2011 11:23:25 AM PST
by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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posted on
02/27/2011 5:09:38 AM PST
by
SJackson
(In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
To: John W
Someone should do a “priceless “ commercial regading stuxnet! Doubt we’ll ever get real news out of Iran with that murderous regime. Gonna see what Al Jazeera has to say about this. They always tell the truth. /s
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posted on
02/27/2011 8:08:59 AM PST
by
Karliner
(Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
To: Karliner
Here's al Jazeera's take. Had a few vomit alerts when certain links went to NOW and other assorted anti American sites but it's par for the course on an enemy site:
Al Jazeera's take on the Nuke plant
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posted on
02/27/2011 8:32:57 AM PST
by
Karliner
(Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
To: John W
TODAH Y'ISROEL!
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posted on
02/27/2011 9:53:04 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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