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Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant
pickens writes "VOA reports that Russian and Iranian engineers have begun loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant located in the southern city of Bushehr amid international fears that Iran will use the facility to make nuclear weapons, a charge both Tehran and the Kremlin vehemently deny. Officials say it will take about two to three months for the plant to start producing electricity once all of the fuel rods have been moved into the reactor. The production capacity of the plant will initially be 500 megawatts, but will eventually increase to 1,000 megawatts. Earlier this year, Washington criticized Russia for going ahead with the planned opening of the plant amid global disagreement and concern over Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. Moscow did, however, back a fourth round of sanctions against Tehran, which called for Iran to stop uranium enrichment."
Another 210 MWatt at max and they could go back to 1955!
wow modded troll! Please someone tell me why!
Too many people think that (-1, Troll) means (-1, I disagree with your political viewpoint) Unfortunately those don't always get yanked out in the meta-moderation process and furthermore the moderation process turns into a sort of political flame war trying to get their viewpoint modded up to the top.
There are trollish comments made to many stories that legitimately deserve this moderation, especially when it is off topic. I'm going dangerously off-topic here myself even for responding, but sometimes a "meta conversation" about the moderation process is appropriate on slashdot when a clear-cut example shows up like this. Moderation is intended to pull out the advertisements for Viagra, the GNAA, and other pure garbage that has nothing to do with the topic in the story at hand. Mod those type of comments down and let us read the stuff that has at least some reasoned opinions even if it may not be something you like.
BTW, (-1, Flamebait) is also not (-1, I disagree). Sometimes a person may be attempting to provoke a fight, but it would be useful to actually read the comment first before moderating in that manner. For me, labeling something flamebait is even more frequently applied merely because of a disagreement of a political viewpoint. If anything, I now sort of wear a flamebait moderation as a badge of honor as it implies that I touched a raw nerve politically speaking. For myself, I treat it more as (-1, Personal attack), as comments that cut down a poster in an insulting manner ought to be modded down.
Otherwise, my response to this question is: Welcome to Slashdot! The moderation system is what it is.