Iran to export electricity

[furface]

I guess there's absolutely no reason for Iran to build a nuclear power plant other than to create nukes and shoot them off in missiles.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/228401.html

The other reason Iran is enriching uranium is produce medical nuclear isotopes.

Neocons can't stand the idea that since kicking the Shah out in 1979 and expelling their Israeli ambassador, they have become a regional technological powerhouse. It wasn't supposed to work like that. The idea that the country in the region that is most opposed to the US and Zionism is the country that's doing the best technologically must be killing Zionists and neocons.

I read a statistic where Iran is graduating as many engineers and the US is and they have about 1/4 the population.

If Iran's technical capability isn't stopped, then all is lost. This is why people want to attack Iran.

[Zippyjuan]

Electrical generation has been the pirmary goal of their nuclear program- and it relates directly to their oil production. Iran's oil is responsible for 50% of government revenues and the country's income. But as their own country has grown, so has their domestic demand for oil and oil by-products like gasoline. Productivity has not kept pace with the growth in domestic demand which means that less and less will be available for export (and revenue). By generating nuclear power, they hope to offset some of the domestic oil demand with electricity- freeing up more oil for exports. It was estimated that they would otherwise become net oil importers in less than a decade.

[NidStyles]

As an Engineer if that is true about the number of Engineers they produce, that is impressive. The number of Engineers coming out of school in the US has been in decline since the 90's when being educated started being "un-cool", but that number is still pretty high. The demand for Engineers is what made me choose my field. It was either that or become another dime a dozen Physicist or Mathematician.