Tehran – Iran Links Nuclear Power Plant To Grid

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    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, reviews an honor guard, as he is accompanied by Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, during a departure ceremony for him, while he departs Tehran's Mehrabad airport for a trip to Tajikistan, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Tehran – Iranian state radio says the country’s first nuclear power plant has been connected to the national power grid for a test run.

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    The Sunday report quotes Mohammad Ahmadian, Iran’s deputy nuclear chief, as saying the plant began to generate 60 megawatts of electricity about midnight.

    Ahmadian says a ceremony marking the connection to the power grid will be held Monday. He expressed hope the plant would feed the grid at full capacity in coming months.

    The power plant in the southern Iranian port of Bushehr has a capacity of 1,000 megawatt power generations. Iran built the plant with Russian help.

    The plant was supposed to go online over the past years but it was repeatedly postponed.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Doesn’t this show that their nuclear program is focused on non-military applications.

    bubii
    bubii
    12 years ago

    the whole of iran is an insane asylem the sooner they are put out of their misery the better it will be for all of us.