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...home than the regime itself is. But having assured its public that Western efforts to prevent Iran from mastering the fuel cycle have failed, the Iranian leadership may have actually given itself some new room to compromise. The regime reportedly wants a compromise that accepts that Iran's nuclear reactor fuel will be enriched in Russia or elsewhere abroad, but allows it to maintain, under international scrutiny, the small research facility that completed this week's experiment. The U.S. and Europe have flatly rejected that proposal, because they had hoped to deny Iran the means of attaining even the know...
...principle Russia does not believe that sanctions could achieve the purposes of settlement of various issues," Lavrov declared. In fact, Lavrov said, the IAEA should do more investigation before concluding that Iran is in fact trying to develop a nuclear weapons capability under the cover of its civilian power reactor program. "Before we call any situation a threat," Lavrov said with evident skepticism of the West?s claims about Iran, "we need facts, especially in a region like the Middle East when so many things are happening...
...build nuclear weapons, rather than simply a civilian energy program; and Iran defiantly warns that if the matter is referred to the Security Council, it will resume industrial-scale uranium enrichment - the activity that most concerns the West, given that it can be used both for civilian reactor fuel and to create weapons-grade material...
...France. Since nuclear power accounts for more than 75% of France's electricity, a good chunk of that money is likely to go toward upgrading existing plants or building new ones. EDF's dominant supplier: Areva, which has already picked up an order for a new-generation pressurized-water reactor to be built in the Normandy town of Flamanville starting...
...energy, the French have grown used to the idea--and enjoy stable electricity prices, especially at a time when oil and gas prices are shooting up. "The French are fond of their nukes," Mandil says. Two towns besides Flamanville actively lobbied to be the site of the new French reactor...