MOSCOW BEGINS WORK ON SECOND IRANIAN REACTOR. Atomic Power
Minister Yevgenii Adamov told ITAR-TASS on 16 January that
Russia has begun work on building a second reactor for Iran's
nuclear power station at Bushehr. He said that Russia's
actions in no way threaten the anti-proliferation regime:
"There is not a single fact to indicate that by building
nuclear power plants we could facilitate the development of
the nuclear weapons sector abroad, much less in Iran."
Meanwhile, Adamov found himself in a dispute with the office
of the Prosecutor-General. He denied that he had been called
in as a witness in a criminal case, while a spokesman for the
prosecutors said that he had, noting that "the Minatom
[ministry of atomic power] head has strange lapses of
memory." PG
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