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Azerbaijan releases Russian shipment for Iran nuclear plant
Baku (AFP) May 1, 2008 Azerbaijan on Thursday released a shipment of Russian equipment for Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant after holding it for a month out of concern it might violate UN sanctions, the foreign ministry said. Azerbaijan had been holding a truck containing insulation equipment for the plant at the Azerbaijani-Iranian border since March 29, insisting that Russia had not provided proper transit documents for the cargo. Its release came after Russia provided information on the shipment earlier this week. "We received the information from Russia, studied it and then we decided to let it go," foreign ministry spokesman Khazar Ibragim told AFP. He said he was unaware if the cargo had already crossed into Iran. Russian state-run company Atomstroiexport had earlier insisted the shipment should be allowed to pass as it was not "subject to special control." The UN Security Council has imposed three sets of sanctions on Iran over its failure to heed resolutions requiring the suspension of its sensitive uranium enrichment operations. Russia, one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, is completing work on Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr. Moscow has close ties with Iran -- its southern border is separated from Iran by just a few hundred kilometres (miles) of territory in the Caucasus region, which includes Azerbaijan. Western governments believe oil-rich Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran insists its programme is peaceful and aimed at generating energy. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Civil Nuclear Energy Science, Technology and News Powering The World in the 21st Century at Energy-Daily.com
Outside View: Nuke power future -- Part 2
Moscow (UPI) May 1, 2008 Uranium prices are increasing throughout the world; over the past three years, they have doubled, and not surprisingly. One cubic centimeter of uranium is equivalent to 60,000 liters of gasoline, 110 to 160 metric tons of coal, or 60,000 cubic meters of natural gas. |
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