ID :
189744
Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:23
Auther :
Shortlink :
https://oananews.org//node/189744
The shortlink copeid
Russia: Iran's Bushehr N. Power Plant Almost Ready
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant is almost complete, with all work set to finish on schedule, the chief of Russia's state-owned nuclear energy company said.
"We have an agreed schedule, all of the work is in the final stages... We've sent a large group of our specialists to Iran, they are now adjusting the systems," Rosatom Director Sergey Kirienko said.
Under a bilateral agreement, which has received approval from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA), Russia will initially operate the plant, supplying fuel and taking away the spent fuel for the next two or three years, but will eventually hand over full control to Iran.
Meantime, Iran's Ambassador to Russia Reza Sajjadi said that the power station would launch operation in early August.
"Russian engineers have told us that they will be in a position to inaugurate and connect up the plant within the first ten days of August," the envoy said.
The second consignment of fuel for the Bushehr nuclear power plant was delivered from Russia in May.
Iran signed a deal with Russia in 1995, according to which the plant was originally scheduled for completion in 1999. However, the project was repeatedly delayed by the Russian side due to the intense pressure exerted on Moscow by the United States and its western allies. Russia finally completed construction of the plant last summer.
After countless delays, work on the power station, initially a German Siemens project of the early Seventies for the Shah, was completed last November. A series of technical hitches forced the authorities into a series of delays.
On October 26, Iran started injecting fuel into the core of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the initial phase of launching the nuclear reactor.
"We have an agreed schedule, all of the work is in the final stages... We've sent a large group of our specialists to Iran, they are now adjusting the systems," Rosatom Director Sergey Kirienko said.
Under a bilateral agreement, which has received approval from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA), Russia will initially operate the plant, supplying fuel and taking away the spent fuel for the next two or three years, but will eventually hand over full control to Iran.
Meantime, Iran's Ambassador to Russia Reza Sajjadi said that the power station would launch operation in early August.
"Russian engineers have told us that they will be in a position to inaugurate and connect up the plant within the first ten days of August," the envoy said.
The second consignment of fuel for the Bushehr nuclear power plant was delivered from Russia in May.
Iran signed a deal with Russia in 1995, according to which the plant was originally scheduled for completion in 1999. However, the project was repeatedly delayed by the Russian side due to the intense pressure exerted on Moscow by the United States and its western allies. Russia finally completed construction of the plant last summer.
After countless delays, work on the power station, initially a German Siemens project of the early Seventies for the Shah, was completed last November. A series of technical hitches forced the authorities into a series of delays.
On October 26, Iran started injecting fuel into the core of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the initial phase of launching the nuclear reactor.
