Nuclear experts killed in Russia plane crash helped design Iran facility

The five Russian scientists were among 44 killed earlier this week; no official investigation of foul play has been opened, though Iranian nuclear experts have in the past been involved in similar accidents.

By Amir Oren

The five nuclear experts killed in a plane crash in northern Russia earlier this week had assisted in the design of an Iranian atomic facility, security sources in Russia said on Thursday.

The five Russian experts were among the 44 passengers killed when the Tupolev-134 plane broke up and caught fire on landing outside the northern city of Petrozavodsk on Monday.

Russia plane crash

The wreckage of Tu-134 plane, belonging to the RusAir airline, is seen on a highway near the city of Petrozavodsk Tuesday, June 21, 2011.

Photo by: AP

The experts - who included lead designers Sergei Rizhov, Gennadi Benyok, Nicolai Tronov and Russia's top nuclear technological experts, Andrei Tropinov - worked at Bushehr after the contract for the plant's construction passed from the German Siemens company to Russian hands.

The five were employed at the Hydropress factory, a member of Russia's state nuclear corporation, and one of the main companies to contract for the Bushehr construction.

The sources said that the death of the scientists is a great blow to the Russian nuclear industry.

The experts were tasked with completing construction of the plant and ensuring that it would be able to survive an earthquake.

According to the sources, although Iranian nuclear scientists have in the past been involved in unexplained accidents and plane crashes, there is no official suspicion of foul play. Investigators are probing human error and technical malfunction as the causes of the crash.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/nuclear-experts-kille...

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Comment by Jim Braun on June 28, 2011 at 7:17am
For the most part Russian airliners are junk anyway. If it's not military they don't care if the wings fall off.
Comment by youhavetoforgiveme on June 27, 2011 at 5:41am

I submit to everyone who reads this that until a formal, independent investigation is concluded the Russian government either caused that plane to crash or they are covering up for those that did.

 

Period.

Comment by Jim Braun on June 24, 2011 at 9:24pm
The dead scientists can no longer say what they were really doing there. Remember Ron Brown? Our defense minister? He was said to have been killed in a plane crash in Bosnia.lets not forget there was a 45 cal. hole found in his head. He joined the Clinton extermination list,why? What did he know? Easy to bring down an airliner. How about the flight that was hit with a stinger rocket shortly after takeoff. Clinton had that one hushed up quick,said it was  a wire in the fuel tank. I am a 35 year pilot,what lies the gov. tells.

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