Turkey confirms meeting with Iran, Brazil to discuss nuclear swap deal
Iran announces plan to build world's first nuclear fusion reactor, something that has yet to be achieved by any nation.
By Reuters and The Associated Press Tags: Israel news Iran Iran nuclearThe foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Brazil are to meet in Istanbul on Sunday to discuss the nuclear swap deal which they agreed to in May, a Turkish foreign ministry official told Reuters on Saturday.
Under the deal reached in Tehran, Iran agreed to send some of its uranium abroad, reviving a plan drafted by the United Nations with the aim of keeping its nuclear work in check.
The accord failed to prevent fresh sanctions from the United Nations, European Union and United States. But Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said this month he still saw a chance of Iran doing the swap on the basis of their agreement.
Davutoglu will first meet and hold a joint news conference with his Brazilian counterpart Celso Amorim at 11 a.m. on Sunday, the foreign ministry official said.
They will then hold a three-way meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. It was not clear if they would then hold another news conference.
The UN Security Council has already passed four sets of sanctions over Iran's nuclear program on suspicions it is being used to produce weapons and the European Union is reportedly planning to approve sanctions that would go even further than those already in place by the UN.
Iran announces plan to build world's first nuclear fusion reactor
The meeting will come the day after Iran's nuclear agency began studies to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, something that has yet to be achieved by any nation.
Iran is not known to have carried out anything but basic fusion research, but it does have a nuclear fission program that the U.S. and its allies believe is a front to build weapons — a charge Tehran denies.
Nuclear fusion, the process powering the sun and stars, has so far only been mastered as a weapon, producing the thermonuclear explosions of hydrogen bombs. It has never been harnessed for power generation.
Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, who also heads the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told a conference on the new research program that his agency has set an initial budget of $8 million to conduct "serious" research in the area of nuclear fusion.
Asghar Sediqzadeh, the head of the new fusion research center said Iran will take two years to complete these studies and then another decade to design and build a reactor.
"The scientific phase of the project effectively began today. We have already hired 50 experts for this purpose," he told state TV.
The United States, the European Union, China, India, Russia, Japan and South Korea signed an accord in 2006 to build a $12.8 billion experimental fusion reactor at Cadarache, southern France, aimed at revolutionizing global energy use for future generations.
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, members have said no single country can afford the immense investment needed to move the science forward.
Salehi, Iran's nuclear chief, said Iran was willing to join any international grouping to offer its expertise to promote the project. However, he said Iran will go its own way should the world not welcome it.
"We are ready to enter into cooperation with any international group or country," he told the semiofficial ISNA news agency.
Salehi said it would take 20 to 30 years before nuclear fusion energy can be commercialized but that Iran seeks to make use of all the capacity inside Iran to speed up its research.
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A nuclear reactor in Bushehr, Iran. |
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It makes sense Iran to have a nuke to balance Israel power which already have a nuke without signing any international treaty. Israel is a rogue state which should be balanced by another rogue state Iran.
The US, the EU, China, India, Russia, Japan, and South Korea, all together have put $13 billion towards a fusion reactor project lasting many years. For comparison, Ehud Barak estimates _one day_ of war on gaza costs $1.5 billion.
When I was child I often red Alì Babà tale. I liked it so much. Afterwords don't Persians own too some flying carpets ?
Next up on Iran's list is flying carpets. If they don't get international cooperation, they will go it alone.
My Friend this is not wise. The detenation will destroy Iran and maybe the East. How could any manmade chamber hold the energy of a Sun? We are aware of this horrible power. Ancient Scribes from India wrote of this aweful power. May I suggest distilling/purifing water for sale as a preacious commodity for your neaghboring countries?
Who in there right mind feel a nuclear Iran would be a safer world?
Clearly the Mahdi, when he comes, will not be content with plutonium bombs, he will need hydrogen bombs, too.
... on a rocket that I'd build as soon as I'm done fixing that old toaster.
The United States has had experimental fusion reactors operating for years, at Lawrence Livermore Labs in California, in San Diego, and at Princeton. Twenty years for a working reactor? Maybe in 50 years.
Some comments indicate the ignorance of some people about the achievements of other humanbeings, who were the first in establishing human civilization. I'm sure of the ability of iranian people to build the nuclear fusion reactor .
Some comments indicate the ignorance of some people about the achievements of other humanbeings, who were the first in establishing human civilization. I'm sure of the ability of iranian people to build the nuclear fusion reactor .
Disarm ISRAEL and the WORLD will be SAFE!
17th largest GDP (1 above Turkey's) even with all of these sanctions according to the CIA World Fact Book. Also the size of UK, France, Spain and Germany combined.
They might be better off with one million hamsters running in wheels.
The dilema for the USA is that in sharing its scientific knowledge with the other countries mentioned in the 2006 accord it is highly probable that it will end up in Iranian and Norrth korean hands before the consortium have even had time to start work. It is far better that the US now go it alone based on their own research no matter what the cost.
i believe that even the brightest minds cannot master a sustainable fusion reaction. If such were the case, we would have an endless supply of cheap, renewable, pollution-free electricity. Maybe the iranians know something we don't. If they are successful, it would be a huge step forward for mankind.
Now someone else will have the power to destroy the world...
And, they will call it "BiBi".
One statement is enough to squeeze the crap out of all the Arab countries. Even though Iran won't be able to get any thing out of this research But all the Arab will buy more ammo from Europe and USA.
...at least that's what they told everyone.
We can see from from what's going on with N. Korea the danger of letting "the crazies" have this type of power. The only positive I can see is Iran would rather let others (Hezbollah, Hamas) do the dying for them. I don't think their people want to make themselves a nuke target for Israel. Basically Iran likes to give weapons to Israel's enemies, talk big against Israel but are unwilling to die to fight Israel. They would rather let others do that and there is no shortage of suckers willing to do it.
Well done, keep it up. Everything is possible. No humanity is above to others. As long it's for peace.
Obviously its for piece - w/o anyone who might hamper: West, Israel, Gulf states etc
Good luck to them. Studying nuclear fusion for energy purposes has absolutely nothing to do with bombs or weapons, not even indirectly. However their initial 'budget' of $8 million is a drop in the ocean of the kind of funds needed to make a breakthrough in this field. They're probably building a smallish experiment of a kind that already exists in many countries in the world. Nothing wrong with that mind you, but I don't understand why this is headline news.
Maybe they will blow themselves up, God willing
What a horrible thing to say. Would you like to be blown up, God willing?