Iran's sole nuclear power plant is now linked to the national energy grid at full capacity after having to be taken off-line for two months, the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization said Wednesday.
Iran
's
sole nuclear power plant is now linked to the national energy grid at full
capacity after having to be taken off-line for two months, the Iranian Atomic
Energy Organization said Wednesday.
"There are no particular problems," organization head Fereydoon
Abbasi Davani told state television.
The plant in Bushehr, whose construction was started by
Germany
before
Iran
's
1979 Islamic revolution and later completed by Russian firm Rosatom, has been
plagued by delays and technical issues.
It was officially commissioned in August 2010 and was meant to have been fully
operational by the end of that year, but was only plugged into the national
grid in late 2011.
The International Atomic Energy Agency reported in November that fuel had been
unloaded from the Bushehr reactor, shutting the plant down. Western diplomats
said that raised fears of safety at the facility.
But
Iran
,
which has been discreet about the difficulties encountered at the nuclear
plant, dismissed speculation that the unloading was because of any technical
problem and called it a routine procedure.
"After a two-month shutdown needed to check the fuel and the reactor, the
Bushehr power plant was linked to the national grid Saturday and reached its
full capacity of 1,000 megawatts" Tuesday, said Abbasi Davani.
The Bushehr plant doesn't adhere to the Convention on Nuclear Safety drawn up
after the 1986
Chernobyl
disaster in order to improve transparency and safety.
Iran
is
striving to develop autonomous nuclear power as part of a nuclear program that
has come under intense scrutiny from the IAEA and the U.N. Security Council.
The five permanent U.N. Security Council members suspect
Iran
has
ambitions to build an atomic weapons capability.
Tehran
denies that and says its program is exclusively peaceful.
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