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...partners made a deal not to enumerate the "carrots"? and "sticks" before a European delegation presents them privately to Iranian leaders.? But they are known to include the enticement of a light water power reactor - whose radioactive fuel is hard to convert to use in a bomb - and the specter of? punishments ranging from? bank account freezes and travel bans to a full-scale economic embargo...
...Tehran. After all, though Iran is signaling an openness to negotiate a deal with the Europeans, it insists that it won't abrogate its right, under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, to enrich uranium. Tehran has signaled a flexibility on time frames, and also a willingness to consider importing its reactor fuel if it is allowed to maintain the small-scale uranium enrichment research facility it is currently operating at Natanz, albeit under closer international supervision. The U.S., Britain and France have rejected that possibility on the grounds that any enrichment activity gives Iran critical know-how for bomb production...
...European package, according to drafts leaked to the media, will offer Tehran wide-ranging economic incentives, including the construction of a light-water nuclear reactor (which is difficult to use for bomb fuel) and the supply of reactor fuel. It would also offer Iran membership of a Gulf region security body whose principles include non-interference - a very roundabout way of addressing the issue of security guarantees...
...approval came after 29 months of its technical staff’s review of the condition and performance of the plant and its components, as well as the quality of the maintenance, engineering, and training that supports plant operations.The approval was unanimously recommended by the independent Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards which was established by Congress decades ago to provide the NRC with an independent view on nuclear safety matters. In addition, the Vermont Public Service Board reviewed the power increase proposal for 13 months and approved the increase as being in the best interest of the state of Vermont.The...
...think you are dealing with a 4-year-old child to whom you can give some walnuts and chocolates and get gold from him?" MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, rejecting an E.U. offer to give his country nonmilitary nuclear technology, including a reactor, in exchange for halting uranium enrichment...