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July 13, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19526121.600-interview-waiting-for-an-iranian-chernobyl.html

Waiting for an Iranian Chernobyl

[New Scientist] Deborah Campbell - Earlier this year an Iranian nuclear scientist at the uranium conversion facility at Isfahan died from poisoning with uranium hexafluoride gas. Accidents like this keep Najmedin Meshkati awake at night. A leading expert in nuclear safety at the University of Southern California, the Iranian-born engineer worries that the Russian technology and human error that led to the Chernobyl disaster may cause a similar tragedy at Iran's nuclear facilities in Bushehr and elsewhere. The biggest nuclear threat from Iran is not from an attack but from an accident, he said.

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