May 15, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— SENATE S6697 

statement of the principal findings of the review and such recommendations for consideration by the Congress as may be appropriate. 

SEC. 205. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

This title and the amendments made by it 

shall take effect on the date of enactment. 

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NOTICE OF HEARING 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL

RESOURCES

Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I 

would like to announce for the information of the Senate and the public 

two time changes with respect to hearings which have previously been scheduled before the Committee on Energy 

and Natural Resources. 

First, the hearing scheduled on 

Thursday, May 25, before the full committee regarding S. 638, the Insular Development Act of 1995, will begin at 9:30 

a.m. instead of 2 p.m., as previously 

scheduled. 

Second, the hearing scheduled on 

Thursday, May 25, before the Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land 

Management regarding property line 

disputes with the Nez Perce Indian 

Reservation in Idaho will begin at 2 

p.m. instead of 9:30 a.m., as previously 

scheduled. 

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AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO 

MEET 

SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask 

unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on International Trade of 

the Committee on Finance be permitted to meet on Monday, May 15, beginning at 2 p.m. in room SD–215, to 

conduct a hearing on the Caribbean 

basin initiative. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ON PERSONNEL AND READINESS

Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask 

unanimous consent that the Subcommittees on Personnel and Readiness of the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet at 2:30 p.m. 

on Monday, May 15, 1995, in open session, to receive testimony regarding 

Department of Defense military family 

housing issues in review of S. 727, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for 

fiscal year 1996, and the future years 

defense program. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL

SERVICE

Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask 

unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Post Office and Civil 

Service, Committee on Governmental 

Affairs, be authorized to meet during 

the session of the Senate on Monday, 

May 15, 1995, to review Federal pension 

reform. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS 

IRANIAN NUCLEAR PLANS 

∑ Mr. D’AMATO. Mr. President, I rise 

today to comment on an interview that 

appeared in the New York Times, on 

Sunday, May 14, 1995, entitled, ‘‘Iran 

Says It Plans 10 Nuclear Plants But No 

Atom Arms.’’

I must say that the interview is quite 

candid in as much as we have the Director of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Reza Amrollahi, stating that 

his nation intends to build as many as 

10 nuclear reactors throughout the 

country. What we have is an Iranian official publicly stating the number of 

reactors Iran wants to build, as well as 

confirming that Iran is buying two 

more Chinese reactors, in addition to 

the Russian reactors they intend to 

purchase. This is remarkable and 

scary. 

Mr. President, this interview only 

confirms what I have been saying all 

along. The terrorist regime in Iran is 

bent on aggression and will not stop. It 

is bad enough that they are abusing the 

human rights of the Iranian people and 

hijacking their rich history, but they 

are sacrificing the Iranian people’s welfare in return for a headlong drive for 

nuclear armament. This is all very unfortunate for the abused Iranian people 

and dangerous for the world. I hope 

that Iranians remember what their corrupt government did to them. 

Mr. President, I ask that the text of 

the above-mentioned article be printed 

in the RECORD. 

[From the New York Times, May 14, 1995] 

IRAN SAYS IT PLANS 10 NUCLEAR PLANTS BUT

NO ATOM ARMS

(By Elaine Sciolino) 

TEHERAN, IRAN, May 13—Iran’s top nuclear 

official said today that his country intended 

to build about 10 nuclear power plants in the 

next two decades, but denied charges by the 

United States that Iran is trying to develop 

nuclear weapons. 

The official, Reza Amrollahi, also said that 

last year he signed a formal contract with 

China for two nuclear power reactors and 

that Chinese experts had completed a feasibility study and had begun to draw up blueprints and engineering reports for a site in 

southern Iran. 

Iran has already made a ‘‘down payment’’

for the project, which will cost $800 million 

to $900 million and involve training by Chinese experts, said Mr. Amrollahi, director of 

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization. 

Although the United States has doubted 

that China is capable of building the reactors 

on its own because the original model included parts from Germany and Japan, Mr. 

Amrollahi said the Chinese now believed 

that they had successfully duplicated the 

technology. 

The United States has led a global campaign to prevent Iran from receiving any nuclear technology because of its suspected 

weapons program. Mr. Amrollahi’s statements suggest that the agreement with 

China is much further along than was previously known, and that Iran is planning a 

vast long-range nuclear energy program. 

They seem certain to strengthen the conviction both within the Clinton Administration 

and Congress that Iran is determined to become a nuclear power. 

In addition to its oil reserves Iran has the 

second largest natural gas reserves in the 

world, and natural gas is much cheaper to 

develop than nuclear energy. That makes 

American officials suspicious that Iran 

wants nuclear power as part of a weapons 

program. 

In a clear attempt to answer charges that 

Iran is developing nuclear weapons, Mr. 

Amrollahi made his remarks in a two-and-ahalf-hour interview at his agency’s new sixstory building. It is part of a sprawling complex in central Teheran that includes a small 

nuclear research reactor built for Iran by the 

United States in the late 1960’s, when the 

monarchy was in power and the relationship 

with Washington was close. Officials offered 

a brief tour of the complex, including a visit 

to two radio isotope laboratories for medical 

research, although they did not allow a tour 

of the reactor. 

‘‘In case we get enough money, in case we 

have enough trained people, we have a plan 

to take 20 years to get 20 percent of our energy from nuclear,’’ Mr. Amrollahi said. 

Asked whether that could mean about 10 reactors, he said, ‘‘Something like that.’’

If Russia completes two reactor projects in 

Iran, and China builds two, it would mean 

that the Iranian Government intends to 

build six more throughout the country. 

At the summit meeting in Moscow this 

week, President Clinton tried without success to persuade President Boris N. Yeltsin 

to abandon an ambitious nuclear energy 

project with Iran, arguing that its Islamic 

Government had embarked on a crash nuclear weapons program and that even peaceful nuclear cooperation was dangerous. Secretary of State Warren Christopher was similarly rebuffed when he made the same point 

to China’s Foreign Minister, Qian Quichen, 

in New York last month. 

Mr. Amrollahi reiterated that Iran had already invested $6 billion in the project—

which is subject to international inspection 

and safeguards—and wanted to finish it. He 

said the contract with Moscow consists of a 

$780 million deal in which Russia will complete one of two reactors that a German firm 

was building at the southern port city of 

Bushehr before the project was halted after 

the 1979 revolution. If that project goes well, 

Russia will finish the second reactor. 

The United States opposes the project in 

part because it will give Iran access to expertise, technology and training it would not 

otherwise have. 

Mr. Amrollahi said that 150 Russian nuclear experts were already working at the 

site and that 500 would eventually be based 

there; a much smaller number of Iranians 

will be trained in Russia on how to operate 

the plant, he added. ‘‘Training people is part 

of that nuclear power plan,’’ he said. ‘‘I don’t 

know why they make such a hot fudge of it.’’

Mr. Amrollahi denied reports that Iran had 

negotiated—or even discussed—a plan to buy 

a gas centrifuge from Russia that could have 

rapidly enriched uranium to bomb-grade 

quality. ‘‘This was a diplomatically made 

cake,’’ he said of reports from Washington 

about the existence of a separate, albeit tentative agreement with Russia. 

Russia has agreed to supply the enriched 

uranium needed to operate the plant it will 

finish, he said. Asked whether Iran was pursuing a program to enrich uranium, at first 

he said, ‘‘Not now,’’ but added quickly: ‘‘No. 

Not forever. Not. No. Not at all.’’

Asked why Iran simply doesn’t use natural 

gas for fuel, Mr. Amrollahi said, ‘‘natural gas 

is one of the best fuels, and many countries 

at the moment need it. So we think it is better to sell it.’’ Like many of Iran’s nuclear 

specialists, Mr. Amrollahi has been educated 

and trained in the West. He holds a master’s 

degree in electrical engineering from the 

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