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Iran to remove fuel from its first nuclear
power plant
Sunday February 27, 2011 10:05:27 AM,
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Tehran:
Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has
said the fuel placed inside the reactor of the country's first
nuclear power plant will be temporarily removed to run a number of
tests, a media report said.
Upon Russia's request, the fuel will be removed from the reactor
core of the Bushehr nuclear power plant to conduct a number of
tests and carry out technical work, envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh
said Saturday.
He said the nuclear fuel would be placed in the core of the
reactor again after the tests were conducted, ISNA news agency
reported.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi earlier said the Bushehr
nuclear power plant would join the national power grid in April.
"Everything with Bushehr nuclear power plant is progressing well,"
he said.
Russia signed an agreement worth $1 billion with Iran in 1995 to
take over the project. Its completion, initially scheduled in
1999, was postponed several times by mounting technological and
financial challenges and interruptions under pressures from the
US.
Salehi rejected reports that the computer system in Bushehr was
infected by a virus called Stuxnet, saying the computer worm could
not go beyond personal computers and enter the facility's main
system.
Some analysts believe it was Stuxnet that caused the delays of the
plant's joining the national grid.
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