The Iran Project - Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami has confirmed Iran's progress in the construction of its second nuclear reactor near the port of Bushehr. The government's support has accelerated the construction, and Eslami expressed hope that the concrete pouring operation for the third reactor will ...

The best reasons for optimism in Vienna are the disastrous consequences of failure. But that is not enough to guarantee success Among all the rubble left bydecades of distrustlittering the road to a nuclear deal, there is one outsize boulder that dwarfs the rest. For domestic political reasons, the Obama administration needs to demonstrate that Irans ...

Defining the size of Irans nuclear enrichment program has become a major sticking point in the negotiations between Iran and world powers expected to resume next month. The scale of this enrichment program, however, greatly relies upon undecided agreements between Tehran and Moscow on the long-term supply of nuclear fuel for the Russian-built reactors:...

The US nuclear allegation against Iran is among the single greatest lies ever propagated by the Warfare State over the past 30 years, an analyst says. For three decades, the War Party has been sanctimoniously denouncing Iran as a rogue state in violation of international law and the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty]. In that they have the shoe on ...

Russia will offer Iran a new supply of S-300 rockets and the coordination of the construction of an additional nuclear reactor in Bushehr, the Russian paper Kommersant reported. According to the report, Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed his staff to prepare the agreements in a bid to discuss them with Iranian President Hassan Rohani ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Former Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoun Abbasi Davani reiterated that the full control of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant will be delivered to Iranian experts only when the AEOI receives the required guarantees from the Russian contractor. Asked about the exact time of the plant handover to Iran, Abbasi ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state TV says a site in southern Iran has been selected for a planned new nuclear research reactor. There has been no timetable announced for the proposed plant, which would be similar to a research reactor in Tehran that produces medical isotopes. Iran's lone energy-producing reactor is in the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr....

MOSCOW: Iran's Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant has suffered a malfunction in its main generator, the Islamic Republic's ambassador toMoscowsaid on Monday. Mahmoud Reza Sadjadidid not specify the nature of the malfunction or make clear whether it has caused the plant's shutdown, Russia's state Itar-TASS news agency reported. But he stressed ...

Iran news headlines on Thursday include Iran reaffirmation on its peaceful nuclear energy; Arabs seekingreassurances fromIran over reactor safety; US lawmakers urgingIrans diminishing oil exports and Chinasupporting dialogon Irans nuclear energy program.   Iranian nation determined to use peaceful nuclear energy: Soltanieh The Iranian ambassador ...

(Reuters) - Arab Gulf states sought reassurances fromIranat a U.N. nuclear agency meeting this week over the safety of its only atomic energy plant, which is located in an earthquake-prone coastal area, diplomats said on Thursday. The Bushehr facility on Iran's Gulf coast is a growing worry for nearby countries: if radiation ever does escape it could ...

Several countries monitoring Iran's nuclear program have picked up information that the country's only power-producing nuclear reactor was damaged by one or more of several recent earthquakes, with long cracks appearing in at least one section of the structure, two diplomats said Tuesday. Iran is under U.N. sanctions for refusing to stop nuclear programs ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran says a moderate earthquake rattled a region near the country's main nuclear reactor, but there were no reports of damage or deaths in the surrounding area. The official Islamic Republic News Agency says Monday's quake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 and was centered near Kaki, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast ...

[caption id="attachment_24326" align="alignright" width="300"] A view of Irans Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant[/caption] MUSCAT, April 28 (KUNA) -- Omani Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bader Bin Hamad Al-Busaidi stressed in remarks on Sunday that the Sultanate's foreign policy is not dedicated by positions over Iran's Nuclear Power ...

[caption id="attachment_24326" align="alignright" width="300"] A view of Irans Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant[/caption] KUWAIT, April 23 (KUNA) -- Director General of Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) Dr. Naji Al-Mutairi said on Tuesday Kuwait was far from the seismic line, but voiced concern over inescapable effects of a possible Iranian ...

Iran news headlines on Monday includeIran Majlis preventing further mergers by government,Iran's Alaei brothers helding Health and Human Rights week,Tehran shutting down due to air pollution, US raising spying on Iranian reactor,Iranian legislators following up Nasrin Sotoudeh's hunger strike, Iran's Aids sufferers struggling for survival and Iran's ...

WASHINGTONThe U.S. has significantly stepped up spying operations on Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor over the past two months, American officials said, driven by heightened concerns about the security of weapons-grade plutonium after Tehran unexpectedly discharged fuel rods from the facility in October. The increased U.S. surveillance of Bushehr, on ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's nuclear chief says fuel was removed from the country's sole nuclear reactor in October because debris had been left behind during its construction. The Sunday report by several Iranian newspapers quotes Fereidoun Abbasi as saying that bolts and welding material left inside the Russian-built Bushehr reactor had led to ...

By The Voice of Russia Nuclear fuel has again been loaded into the reactor of Irans first nuclear power plant, and the station is ready to resume its work. According to RIA news agency, this was done in the presence of IAEA officials. Earlier, the IAEA said that nuclear fuel was fully unloaded from the first power unit of the Bushehr nuclear ...