Russia Supplying Iranian Nuclear Horn (Dan 7)

Russian Company Wants To Build More Nuclear Plants In Iran

By Sounak Mukhopadhyay
on May 27 2015 12:22 PM EDT

Sergei Kiriyenko (front right), head of the Russian state nuclear monopoly Rosatom, and Ali Akbar Salehi (left) head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, attend a signing ceremony in Moscow, Nov. 11, 2014. Reuters/Maxim Shemetov

Russia is likely to build two more nuclear power plants in Iran. The indication comes from a senior Rosatom official.

Nikolai Spassky, Rosatom’s deputy director general for international affairs, said that his country was ready to sign agreements with Iran to build two more nuclear plants in the Islamic republic. The official from Russia’s State Corporation on Atomic Energy said that the company was ready to build the second and the third nuclear power plants in Iran.

Spassky had a meeting with Mehdi Sanaei, Iran’s ambassador to Russia. He said his company would want to build the plants in Bushehr. Russia already has a nuclear plant in the southern port city in Iraq.

Iran’s Press TV reported that Spassky was hopeful about a potential nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers. He hoped that an agreement would be finalized before a June deadline.

Russia’s business relations with Iran seem to be growing: It has given six Iranian food companies permission to export their products to Russia. “We gave permission for the delivery of food products from six Iranian companies: four dairy producers, and two poultry producers,” Yulia Melano, press secretary for Russia’s Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection Service, told Business Insider. “Deliveries can begin only after the completion of an additional set of requirements, which will guarantee complete safety.”

Financial Times reported that Russia had expressed uncertainty about delivering high-end defense missiles in the future. Yevgeny Lukyanov, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said that it was still not the right time to make such deliveries. His comments came Tuesday while Western powers, including the United States, have been critical about Russia’s decision to clear the missile deal. According to some, Russia’s lenient attitude toward Iran may delay the process of finalizing the nuclear agreement.

Russia Enriching Even More Uranium (Dan 7:7)

Russia 1st to test 10Gen uranium enrichment centrifuges

Published time: April 27, 2015 11:37 Edited time: April 27, 2015 12:26

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Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear agency, confirms scientists are testing 10th generation centrifuges. No other country even possesses 9th gen tech, putting Rosatom years ahead of the competition. “We’re on to 10 Gen,” announced Aleksandr Belousov, general director of Urals Integrated Electrochemical Plant (UIEP), a Rosatom subsidiary in Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region, in the Urals. “Scientists and engineers are solving technical issues, which is quite difficult. Any kind of new research and technological development is a venture undertaking, you can either succeed or fail… Any new machinery must be economically efficient. [10Gen] is being developed out of economic expediency, not for mere modernization. The more energy-intensive the machinery is, the more technical problems emerge,” Belousov said. A gas centrifuge uses principles of centrifugal force to perform radioisotope separation of gases, by accelerating molecules to such an extent that particles of different masses are physically separated within a rotating container. The centrifugal separation of isotopes is used for various purposes. First of all for production of low-enriched (up to 3-4 percent) uranium to be used as fuel at nuclear power plants. It also is used to produce weapons-grade, highly-enriched uranium (90 percent of U-235). Centrifuges are also needed to produce radioisotopes for medicine and various technical issues. Centrifuges are operated in cascades of hundreds and thousands units. Manufacturer supplies centrifuges in assemblies of 20 units in two rows, and at the factory they are placed on the columns in tiers, one above the other. Last week the second cascade unit of 9 Gen gas centrifuges has become operable at the UIEP, with the first 9 Gen unit introduced in late December 2013. Having two 9 Gen centrifuge cascades means that UIEP is the leader in the industry, making up to 48 percent of Russian radioisotope market and 20 percent of the global market, RIA Novosti reports.

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The 9 Gen centrifuges are four times more productive than 8 Gen centrifuges, which means a similar productivity pace should be applied to 10 Gen units, Belousov said. Development of nuclear enrichment centrifuges in the Soviet Union began in 1952. Over the time general dimensions of the machinery changed a little yet the productivity has augmented by 14 times, whereas operating costs have diminished by at least 10 times, aide to the UIEP head, Gennady Solovyov, said. The modern Russian centrifuge is a state-of-the-art component made of composite materials and special aluminum alloy. Its rotor spins with unbelievable speed of 1,000 rotations per second and can do it without a single stop for 30 years. Mechanical malfunctions are extremely rare, no more than 0.1 percent (one failure per 1,000 units) per year.

 

Russia’s TVEL Fuel Company (TENEX for operations abroad) is the largest operator of nuclear enrichment centrifuges and absolute leader of world’s radioisotope market, possessing about 30,000 separative work units (SWU), which is almost half of the world’s total 65,000 SWUs. Russian centrifuges are also the most advanced and have higher output capacity than SWUs from rival companies in France, US or Japan.

 

Starting from 2009 Russia is supplying 7 and 8 Gen centrifuges to China. The second-largest operator of uranium enrichment centrifuges after Rosatom is URENCO, a joint German, Dutch and UK enterprise operating 14,200 SWUs. Rosatom is heavily investing in nuclear enrichment at the UIEP. In 2014, the corporation allocated 7.5 billion rubles (nearly $150 million), whereas for 2015-2019 Rosatom plans to spend on the UIEP no less than 34 billion rubles (about $667 million).

Iran Now Asking For New Generation Centrifuges (Daniel 8:3)

Ex-Official: New Generation of Centrifuges A Must for Iran

January 18, 2015 – 23:43

 

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) emphasized the necessity for the employment of new generation of centrifuges.

 

Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Tasnim News Agency, former AEOI chief Fereidoun Abbasi, who is also a renowned physicist in Iran, said he sees no reason why Iran should not enjoy the new generation of centrifuge machines.

Iran should use new machines in addition to the old generation of centrifuges since “we are now a powerful country in the field of nuclear technology, have good scientists in designing, calculations and simulation and have also obtained machines with higher separation capability,” he added.
Abbasi said more technical progress in the centrifuge technology will in turn help upgrade other engineering fields in the country, including electricity, control, mechanics, metallurgy, chemistry, machining, welding and production of special alloys.

He noted that Iran’s development in the nuclear science technology will reduce the number of students that go abroad.

The former official also pointed to the West’s insistence on a reduction in the number of Iran’s centrifuge machines, saying they seek to bring Iran’s nuclear technology to a complete halt and stop its research projects.

Abbasi further stressed that Iran should not get engaged in debates over the number of centrifuges.
“We should have the number (of centrifuges) that we deem rational. We should complete our research along with the optimization and also make progress in the technology and production of machines with high SWU (Separative Work Units).”

Back in July 2014, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei underlined that Iran’s uranium enrichment was a vital issue, adding that the country definitely needed an enrichment capacity of 190,000 SWUs.

The Leader had warned that the West’s objective in the issue of uranium enrichment is to persuade the Islamic Republic of Iran to limit its enrichment capacity to 10,000 SWUs.

Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) are now in nuclear talks with the aim of hammering out a final agreement to end more than a decade of impasse over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program.

Amid diplomatic negotiations, reports suggest that the sequence and timing of removal of anti-Iran sanctions, Tehran’s uranium enrichment capacity and the number of its centrifuge machines make up the main stumbling blocks to the nuclear talks.