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Others suspect Iran had outside help too, possibly from Pakistan or North Korea.And why does it need to enrich uranium at all, since Russia has agreed to handle all the fuel for the 1,000MW electricity-generating reactor its companies are building at Bushehr? Because, says Iran, over the next 20 years it intends to build several more reactors, with a total capacity of 6,000MW.
The running-down of traditional electricity generating capacity, due to the closure of old atomic reactors and dirty coal-fired plants, has left the UK threatened by the lights going out at peak times.
After all, even after China finishes building all those reactors, nuclear power will still represent less than a tenth of its electricity generating capacity -- which will continue to come, to an almost mind-boggling degree, from planet-warming coal.
It should contemplate becoming the world's supplier of electricity generated by nuclear reactors.
This would remove the threat that Iran could go back into the bomb business on a moment's notice, and the country could still benefit from the electricity generated by its Russian-supplied reactor at Bushehr, which should be sufficient if Iran truly wants only civilian nuclear power.
Last October the government persuaded China to invest heavily in the plant, filling a funding shortfall, and the Energy Secretary Amber Rudd is awaiting the decision before signing a deal to allow the company to charge double the present price for the electricity generated from Hinkley's twin reactors.
Creating the energy industry's equivalent of an organic food store, a Connecticut company is to announce Monday that it will begin selling what it calls "green" electricity, generated not from oil or nuclear reactors, but from renewable sources like wind, water and methane gas captured from garbage dumps.
For more than a decade, regulators and industry players have been discussing the feasibility of air-cooled condensers, which use electricity generated by the plant to power air conditioners that cool reactors without water.
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