2月27日，伊朗與俄羅斯簽署了關于“布什爾”核電站核燃料供應和廢料歸還協議，為該核電站的最終投入運行掃清了障礙。外電報道如下：Iran and Russia ignored U.S. objections and signed a nuclear fuel agreement Sunday that is key to bringing Tehran's first reactor online by mid-2006.

The long-delayed deal, signed at the heavily guarded Bushehr nuclear facility in southern Iran, dramatized President Bush's failure to persuade the Russians to curtail support for the Iranian nuclear program during his summit with Vladimir Putin on Thursday in Slovakia.

Under the deal, Russia will provide nuclear fuel to Iran, then take back the spent fuel, a step meant as a safeguard to ensure it cannot be diverted into a weapons program. Iran has also agreed to allow the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, to monitor Bushehr and the fuel deliveries.

Reactor在此表示“反應堆”，此外還有“電抗器，反應器，反動者，引起（或經受）反應作用的人或物”等含義，例如：A nuclear reaction（核反應）；reactor-converter（反應堆轉換器）；reactor- up/down（反應堆功率上升/下降）；fission-type reactor（核裂變反應堆）。

據悉，這項重要協議是俄羅斯原子能機構主席魯緬采夫和伊朗原子能機構主席阿加扎德在視察布什爾核電站后在當地簽署的。按協議要求，伊朗同意將布什爾核電站的核廢料全部歸還給俄羅斯，在此基礎上，俄羅斯將為該核電站提供核燃料并啟動反應堆。

（中國日報網站編）