Iran successfully tests Bushehr nuclear plant
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30-Nov-2009 (one comment)

Iran's long-delayed first nuclear power plant has been tested successfully, a senior Iranian nuclear official announced on Monday.

“A 250 bar (atmospheric) pressure test has been successfully carried out at the Bushehr nuclear plant,” Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Mohammad Ali Salehi said at a press conference with visiting Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko in Tehran.

In February, tests were carried out at the power plant using “dummy” fuel rods loaded with lead in place of enriched uranium to simulate nuclear fuel.

But the Russian energy minister refused to say when the nuclear power plant would become operational.
“There is no need to make another (start date) promise,” IRNA quoted Shmatko as saying.

“We have been working on this power plant jointly with a sense of responsibility, and the plant will be fully operational in a short time,” he added.

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پیام

Huh, after almost 2 decades they still are testing?

by پیام on Tue Dec 01, 2009 05:47 AM PST

Great achievment. Maybe in 2020 it will eventually start paying back what it has cost us Iranians to build it and rebuild it and update it and buy russians off and .....


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