Iran parliament votes to reduce ties with Britain

[lucy]

To be fair, nuclear power does make a little sense there even with a plentiful supply of oil/gas: every bit of fuel they burn to generate electricity is a bit they aren't exporting to generate money instead.

That makes hardly sense. I don't know what nuclear power plants cost and am too lazy to research it, but I guess they don't come cheap and they'd have to save a lot of barrels of oil to make that deal a good one. Also, to my knowledge, Iran actually has to import refined oil products such as gasoline, so if they needed the money it'd better be invested in building a couple refineries.
Finally, I heavily doubt that they want to substitute oil or coal generated power with fission generated power because they care a lot about the release of greenhouse gases.
Nope, really, the only reason for Iran to go after nuclear power (and make such a fuss about it) is because they want the bomb.

And yeah, I fully agree with everybody in this thread that Iran is probably the last country on this planet who should have nuclear weapons. I just happen to think that it's too late to stop them.

[Thorne]

I don't know what nuclear power plants cost ... but I guess they don't come cheap and they'd have to save a lot of barrels of oil to make that deal a good one.

I was told many years ago that the cost to generate a kilowatt hour of electricity from coal was about 20 times the cost using nuclear. Oil was even worse, about 50 times the cost of nuclear. I doubt that it would cost 20 times as much to build a nuclear plant as a coal or oil plant, so nuclear makes more economic sense. Especially if your primary source of money is from the export of oil.