ian nuclear scientists wrote to then-President Muhammad Khatami, expressing concern that a hasty mixture of German and old Soviet designs and building methods might not be a good idea. They received no reply.
Second, there is, as yet, no agreement on how and where to treat the waste water produced by the Hellieh plant. Early plans to just let it flow into the waters of the Gulf could pose a major ecological threat – wiping out the region’s fishing industry and/or threatening the desalination plants used by many Gulf states to produce up to 80 percent of their water.
Nor is there yet agreement on what to do with the plant’s nuclear waste. […]
The world needs to put at least as much importance on the safety aspect of the Iranian nuclear program, which is readily manifest, as on its security aspect.
Building nuclear power stations, especially when designed by Russians and Chinese firms that are subject to no international scrutiny, on the world’s most active earthquake zone might not be the best of ideas either for Iran or its neighbors.
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