Russia announces completion of Iran’s first nuclear power plant

October 7th, 2009 The ambitious 1000 MW power plant proposed to come up at Nabinagar in Bihar has run into rough weather as the state government has threatened not to supply water to this plant from Sone river. The project is the joint venture of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and the Indian Railways, completion of which will cost Rs 5352 crore.

September 26th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran's new nuclear fuel enrichment plant will be operational soon, head of the office of Iran's supreme leader Mohammad Mohammadi-Golpayegani said Saturday, according to a media report. "This new plant, god willing, will be operational soon," Mohammadi-Golpayegani was quoted as saying.

June 10th, 2009 Reports: Russia says bank problems delay BushehrMOSCOW — The head of the Russian company building Iran's first nuclear power plant said Wednesday that it is unclear when the reactor will be switched on, Russian news agencies reported, potentially casting doubt on Iranian hopes for a startup before the end of the year. The nearly finished plant near the city of Bushehr is part of a nuclear program Iran says is purely peaceful but the U.S.

April 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia's TVEL, a subsidiary of state-controlled nuclear power company Atomenergoprom, has delivered its first shipment of nuclear fuel for Indian heavy-water reactors, the company said Friday. 'Thirty metric tonnes of pellets were delivered to the nuclear fuel complex in Hyderabad (in India) for further conversion into fuel for the Rajasthan nuclear power plant,' the company said.

April 9th, 2009 ISFAHAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday inaugurated the country's first nuclear fuel manufacturing plant (FMP) located near this central Iranian city. The FMP, reportedly based solely on work by Iranian experts, is to provide the Arak 40-megawatt research reactor with fuel, producing nuclear fuel tablets, rods and assemblies for the plant, which is to be launched within the next two or three years.

March 23rd, 2009 DHAKA - Russia Sunday submitted a proposal to the Bangladeshi government to build a nuclear power plant in the country, the Russian ambassador here said. The proposal was formally submitted to Bangladesh's Science Minister Yeafesh Osman.

March 5th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday told parliament that her government would set up a nuclear power plant to meet the country's growing energy demand. 'We are taking initiatives to set up a nuclear power plant at Rooppur site,' she said in response to a question from a parliament member.

February 28th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran would be able to put its Bushehr nuclear power plant into operation on its own if Russia refused to do so, a former Iranian president said Friday. 'Iran's enemies must know that such achievements as putting a satellite into orbit and uranium enrichment prove beyond all doubt that Iran can put the Bushehr nuclear power plant into service with its own resources if the Russians do not do so,' Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said after Friday prayers in Teheran.

February 27th, 2009 BUSHEHR - Tehran and Moscow were discussing a deal under which Russia would deliver nuclear fuel to Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr for ten years, Iranian news agency Mehr reported Thursday quoting Sergei Kiriyenko, chief executive officer of Russian nuclear company Rosatom. Kiriyenko made the remarks Wednesday in a joint news conference with Gholamreza Aqazadeh, the director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).

February 26th, 2009 TEHRAN - The test run of Iran's first nuclear power plant started here Wednesday, Iran's Mehr news agency reported. The test involved the use of non-nuclear material instead of enriched uranium.

February 25th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran will test its first nuclear power plant Wednesday near the Persian Gulf city of Bushehr. The Russian-built nuclear power plant, some 15 km south of Bushehr City, is expected to generate 1,000 megawatt of electricity.

February 24th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran has said it will turn on its Russian-built nuclear power plant in the Persian Gulf city of Bushehr for a test run Wednesday. A test run of the Bushehr nuclear plant will be conducted Feb 25 in the presence of Russia's atomic energy corporation Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko and Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation (AEO) chief Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, an AEO spokesman said.

February 5th, 2009 MOSCOW - Iran's nuclear reactor built by Russia at Bushehr will be switched by the end of this year, the head of Russia's state nuclear energy agency said Thursday. 'We are moving according to schedule,' Sergei Kiriyenko told reporters in a Kremlin briefing.

January 13th, 2009 MOSCOW - Iran is confident that Russia will fulfil its commitment of building its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran's envoy to Russia has said. 'Iran did not believe that the Russian side has deliberately delayed completion of the 1,000-MW power plant in Bushehr,' Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi told a Russian newspaper, the IRNA news agency reported.

January 13th, 2009 MOSCOW - Iran is confident that Russia will fulfil its commitment of building its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran's envoy to Russia has said. 'Iran did not believe that the Russian side has deliberately delayed completion of the 1,000-MW power plant in Bushehr,' Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi told a Russian newspaper, the IRNA news agency reported.