Chavez says Russia to build nuclear reactor in Venezuela

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Chavez says Russia to build nuclear reactor in Venezuela

RIA Novosti
Monday, Nov 17, 2008

Russia will help Venezuela build its first nuclear reactor in the northwestern province of Zulia, President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday.

Chavez had announced on Friday that Venezuela was in talks with Russia on nuclear energy cooperation, and the issue is likely to be discussed during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit later this month.

"A nuclear reactor, to produce energy for peaceful purposes, will soon be built in Estado Zulia and named in honor of the Venezuelan scientist of the last century Humberto Fernandez Moran," Chavez told supporters in Maracaibo, the capital of Zulia state.

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"Brazil has several nuclear reactors, as does Argentina. We will also have our own reactor," the president said.

Medvedev's trip to Venezuela on November 26 will be the first visit by a Russian president.

Russian nuclear power plant constructer Atomstroyexport, established in 1998, has completed or is working on reactors in Iran, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, China and India.

 








 
 
 

[TribReady]

All this nuclear technology is for energy only     

I personally think that as long as we monitor it closely enough, it should be fine.

[BBF]

and why not, it is good enough for the other countries mentioned plus several more that use nuclear power stations.
The US could certainly use more, it is clean energy.
A shame that relationship between Venezuela and the US has gotten so bad that this work couldn't be done by a US company.

[Bigeasy]

Venezuela sits on quite a large oil field.  More then enough to fuel their energy needs, and bring prosperity to the people.  Yet the people are among the poorest in S. / Central America.  When you think how much oil Venezuela sells, and how little money trickles down to the people, the corruption and theft must be impressive.  Venezuela will remain as it is until the people have had enough of that idiot Chavez, and dispose him.

Venezuela needs  nuclear power like a hole in the head.  That's just Russia trying to tweak the United States nose, same as threatening to deploy missiles on the Polish border.  Its just Russia being Russia.  Democracy has taken a backwards slide in Russia these past few years, and its not hard to imagine them falling back to their old ways of doing business.

Larry

[gypsyman]

As long as the company building the reactor has a clean record, of building power plants, and safe ones, I have no problem with this. From my understanding, the plutonium,(did I spell that right?) that is used in power plants, is quite different than what is used in making nuclear bombs of any kind.  gypsyman

[magooch]

That's all right, the messiah will make it all okay.

[torpedoman]

Them russians really know how to do it just ask any one living in chernoble