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August 21, 2010. Tehran, Iran. After years of delays, Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr was finally launched. Commercial power generation is now expected to begin by the end of 2010. Experts the Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS) investigate why the Bushehr NPP took almost 15 years to complete. More info
Groundbreaking ideas are needed to stimulate bilateral relations in nuclear energy, argues Seiichi Nobuhara, President of IBT Corporation, a strategic consultancy specializing in the high-tech industry. One of these ideas is to set up a joint Russian-Japanese nuclear enrichment facility on one of the Kuril Islands.More info (in Russian)
Expert of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Lomonosov Moscow State University Petr Topychkanov looks at the development of India's international cooperation in the nuclear energy industry since the NSG eased its restrictions on nuclear trade with the country in September 2008. As growth of India's installed generation capacity is slowing down as a result of the world financial crisis, the author says competition on the Indian market between the key holders of nuclear reactor technology may intensify.More info (in Russian)
The Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Science, Aleksandr Vorontsov, analyses the motives behind the North Korean leadership's decision to conduct new missile launches and a nuclear test in the spring of 2009. He also looks at the reaction of North Koreans to the underground nuclear detonation. The event failed to become the country's main news event, the author says, as all the attention was focused on the spring agricultural works and a campaign to involve urban North Koreans in planting rice.