Iran to build 'powerful' new nuclear reactor

Iran is very determined to Go the Nuclear way .
Defiant in every way they are planning a bigger reactor to be ready in about five years , Five years is pretty quick , they must have been already working on it for awhile ?


AFP
TEHRAN — Iran plans to construct a new nuclear reactor for radio-isotope production that is "more powerful" than its Tehran research facility, atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Wednesday.

Salehi said Tehran will be also ready with its first batch of fuel plates for the existing Tehran research centre by September 2011.

The atomic chief added Tehran will adopt a "dual-track" policy in dealing with the world powers, which imposed new sanctions on Tehran even as they offered to discuss its nuclear programme.

"Iran is designing a reactor to produce radio isotopes, which will be more powerful than the Tehran reactor," Salehi was quoted as saying on state television's website.

The project would "probably take about five years," Salehi said, adding the that the location was not yet finalised, ISNA news agency said in a report that indicated it would be a 20-megawatt reactor.