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Important tests of Bushehr plant successfully conducted
TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) -- Important tests of the Bushehr nuclear power plant have been successfully conducted, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Tuesday.
“Things are going well, and 2500 Russian experts are currently working at the construction site, and people will soon hear good news,” Salehi said in an interview broadcast on Iranian television.
He rejected the claims that Russia has deliberately delayed the start-up of the Bushehr plant and expressed hope that the nuclear power plant would become operational in the few next months.
The start-up of the power plant has been postponed due to technical problems, some of which were caused by political issues, he added.
Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko’s recent interview led to most of the discussions on the issue, Salehi said.
The Russian official dismissed the possibility that the power plant could start electricity production before the end of 2009 and in fact the power plant had not been scheduled to do so in this period, Salehi said.
In November, when reporters asked him if the nuclear power plant in southern Iran would come on stream by the end of 2009 as previously scheduled, Shmatko said that it would not be possible to start up the plant before the end of the year.
“The engineers have to reach their findings,” Reuters quoted him as saying. “The building of the Bushehr station is defined absolutely 100 percent by technological conditions.”
The Russian energy minister told reporters in Moscow on Tuesday that he is satisfied with the pace of work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant and it will come on stream as previously scheduled.
“These issues created pessimism among Iranians toward Russia, and unfortunately, our media outlets focused on it, and even Majlis representatives and even (Majlis) committee members complained,” Salehi stated.
“But the reality is that the construction of one nuclear power plant takes eight and a half years on average. For instance (the construction of) one power plant took 15 years, but we have been building this power plant for 13 to 14 years, and this is not an unusual matter,” he added.
“Things are going well, and 2500 Russian experts are currently working at the construction site, and people will soon hear good news,” Salehi said in an interview broadcast on Iranian television.
He rejected the claims that Russia has deliberately delayed the start-up of the Bushehr plant and expressed hope that the nuclear power plant would become operational in the few next months.
The start-up of the power plant has been postponed due to technical problems, some of which were caused by political issues, he added.
Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko’s recent interview led to most of the discussions on the issue, Salehi said.
The Russian official dismissed the possibility that the power plant could start electricity production before the end of 2009 and in fact the power plant had not been scheduled to do so in this period, Salehi said.
In November, when reporters asked him if the nuclear power plant in southern Iran would come on stream by the end of 2009 as previously scheduled, Shmatko said that it would not be possible to start up the plant before the end of the year.
“The engineers have to reach their findings,” Reuters quoted him as saying. “The building of the Bushehr station is defined absolutely 100 percent by technological conditions.”
The Russian energy minister told reporters in Moscow on Tuesday that he is satisfied with the pace of work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant and it will come on stream as previously scheduled.
“These issues created pessimism among Iranians toward Russia, and unfortunately, our media outlets focused on it, and even Majlis representatives and even (Majlis) committee members complained,” Salehi stated.
“But the reality is that the construction of one nuclear power plant takes eight and a half years on average. For instance (the construction of) one power plant took 15 years, but we have been building this power plant for 13 to 14 years, and this is not an unusual matter,” he added.
