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Iran puts nuclear power plant on the grid
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September 5, 2011, Monday
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IRAN'S first nuclear power plant has started to add electricity to the national grid, according to reports yesterday, coming on stream after years of delays.
The ISNA news agency reported: "The Bushehr nuclear power plant joined the national grid on Saturday with power of around 60 megawatts."
Hamid-Khadem Qaemi, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organisation, said the plant would be inaugurated officially by September 12, by which time it would be operating at 40 percent capacity.
The US$1-billion, 1,000-megawatt plant on the Persian Gulf coast is the first of what Iran hopes will be a network of nuclear facilities that will reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
Started by Germany's Siemens in the 1970s before Iran's Islamic revolution, the project was later taken over by Russian engineers and has since suffered a series of delays.
The West fears Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at making atomic weapons, which Tehran denies.
Experts say firing up the Bushehr plant will not bring Iran any closer to building a nuclear bomb because Russia will supply the enriched uranium for the reactor and take away spent fuel that could be used to make weapons-grade plutonium.
The ISNA news agency reported: "The Bushehr nuclear power plant joined the national grid on Saturday with power of around 60 megawatts."
Hamid-Khadem Qaemi, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organisation, said the plant would be inaugurated officially by September 12, by which time it would be operating at 40 percent capacity.
The US$1-billion, 1,000-megawatt plant on the Persian Gulf coast is the first of what Iran hopes will be a network of nuclear facilities that will reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
Started by Germany's Siemens in the 1970s before Iran's Islamic revolution, the project was later taken over by Russian engineers and has since suffered a series of delays.
The West fears Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at making atomic weapons, which Tehran denies.
Experts say firing up the Bushehr plant will not bring Iran any closer to building a nuclear bomb because Russia will supply the enriched uranium for the reactor and take away spent fuel that could be used to make weapons-grade plutonium.
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