Iran's first nuclear power plant will be ready to generate electricity on April 9, atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said Friday, in signs of yet another delay.
Iran's first nuclear power plant will be ready to generate electricity
on April 9, atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said Friday, in signs of yet
another delay.
"We hope that on Farvardin 20 (April 9) ... we will witness the connection
of the plant to the national grid," Salehi was quoted by the ISNA news
agency as saying.
On November 27, Salehi announced that the plant, built by
Russia
in
Bushehr, has begun operations, and that
Tehran
hoped
electricity produced there would be online "in a month or two."
"The reactor has started its operation and the next step is to reach
critical phase which will happen by the end of Bahman (February 20). We have
said before that due to some tests, we may have face delays but these delays
are around a week or two," he said on Friday.
He again reiterated that the computer worm Stuxnet had not entered the
"main systems," and that Iranians are "pursing work with the
Russians while observing all the safety issues."
Stuxnet has reportedly mutated and wreaked havoc on computerized industrial
equipment in
Iran
. The
New York Times has said it was tested by
Israel
and
the
U.S.
on
Tehran
's
atomic installations.
Salehi said "Westerners are not seeking people's health and security and
will do anything to gain their aims even if it poses danger to human society.
"If anything happens to a nuclear plant its repercussions will not be
confined to one border and they should know that it can tie them down,"
Salehi said without elaborating.
Iran
says
it needs the plant, which had been under construction since the 1970s, to meet
growing demand for electricity.
Western governments suspect
Iran
's
nuclear programme masks a drive for an atomic weapons capability, an ambition
Tehran
has
steadfastly denied.
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