Iran Close to Completing Its First Nuclear Reactor. Should We Worry?

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By Andrew Moseman
Oct 26, 2010 10:12 PMNov 19, 2019 9:36 PM
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After decades of development, Iran's first nuclear power plant is close to operational. This week the country's TV service announced that engineers have begun loading the fuel rods into the core of the Bushehr plant in southern Iran.

The 1,000-megawatt Bushehr plant has been under construction since before Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. It was first contracted to a company that later became German industrial giant Siemens; more recently work was done with the help of Russia's state-owned atomic energy company. [Los Angeles Times]

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