Iran refuses to give up heavy-water nuclear reactor
AFP
Date: 02-13-05
TEHRAN, (AFP) - Iran said it would not give up plans to build a heavy-water reactor, which can be used to make nuclear weapons material, in exchange for a light-water research reactor proposed by the Europeans.
"We welcome such proposals but we will not under any circumstances replace our heavy-water research reactor," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said. "We will continue working on our heavy-water reactor."
EU negotiators in talks with Iran over its nuclear activities have offered to send a mission to help Tehran obtain a light-water research reactor in what would be the first concrete move towards rewarding Tehran for abandoning uranium enrichment.
Britain, France and Germany are trying to convince Iran to dismantle an enrichment program the United States says is part of a covert atomic weapons development, in return for economic and political rewards.
Tehran insists its nuclear programme is purely for civilian energy needs.
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