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Iran's Bushehr to be loaded with nuclear fuel today
TEHRAN, Aug. 21 (MNA) – The Bushehr nuclear power plant will be loaded with nuclear fuel today at a ceremony to be attended by Iran’s atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi and Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency director Sergei Kiriyenko.
The startup of the plant will mark an important step in Iran’s efforts to produce nuclear electricity.
Ali Shirzadian, the spokesperson of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said the Bushehr reactor will be fully loaded with nuclear fuel by the end of the Iranian month of Shahrivar (September 22).
Shirzadian stated that the plant will be producing 500 megawatts of electricity at the initial stage and its production capacity will ultimately increase to 1000 megawatts of electricity.
In a meeting with Iranian ambassador Mohmoud Reza Sajjadi in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia has been determined to complete the Bushehr project.
The launch of Iran’s first nuclear reactor will prove a disappointment for the United States and Israel which claim Iran is using its civilian nuclear energy program as a cover to develop a nuclear weapon. A charge the Islamic Republic strongly denies.
In an interview with Fox News last Friday, John R. Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Israel had only 8 days to launch an attack on the Bushehr plant, saying it would become “immune” from an Israeli attack after it is loaded with nuclear fuel rods.
“Once the rods are in the reactor, an attack on the reactor risks spreading radiation in the air, and perhaps into the water of the Persian Gulf,” Bolton said.
The startup of the plant will mark an important step in Iran’s efforts to produce nuclear electricity.
Ali Shirzadian, the spokesperson of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said the Bushehr reactor will be fully loaded with nuclear fuel by the end of the Iranian month of Shahrivar (September 22).
Shirzadian stated that the plant will be producing 500 megawatts of electricity at the initial stage and its production capacity will ultimately increase to 1000 megawatts of electricity.
In a meeting with Iranian ambassador Mohmoud Reza Sajjadi in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia has been determined to complete the Bushehr project.
The launch of Iran’s first nuclear reactor will prove a disappointment for the United States and Israel which claim Iran is using its civilian nuclear energy program as a cover to develop a nuclear weapon. A charge the Islamic Republic strongly denies.
In an interview with Fox News last Friday, John R. Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Israel had only 8 days to launch an attack on the Bushehr plant, saying it would become “immune” from an Israeli attack after it is loaded with nuclear fuel rods.
“Once the rods are in the reactor, an attack on the reactor risks spreading radiation in the air, and perhaps into the water of the Persian Gulf,” Bolton said.
