Bushehr Nuclear Weapons Reactor

Category: Nuclear

This facility under construction in Bushehr, Iran is the subject of much of the current worry about Iran Nuclear Weapons program. See globalsecurity.org for more info.

According to Paul Leventhal of the Nuclear Control Institute, if Iran were to withdraw from the Nonproliferation Treaty and renounce the agreement with Russia, the Bushehr reactor could produce a quarter ton of plutonium per year, which Leventhal says is enough for at least 30 atomic bombs. See also Plutonium from Light Water Reactors as Nuclear Material, Harmon W.Hubbard, April 2003.