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World Work on Irans Bushehr nuclear power plant continues as scheduled
Russian and Iranian officials have confirmed that work to launch Iran's first nuclear power plant is going as scheduled. "A high-ranking Iranian official responsible for the implementation of the Iranian nuclear programme stressed that Russian and Iranian experts are working in a team to launch the Bushehr power plant as soon as possible," Atomstroyexport said in a statement. Atomstroyexport chief Dan Belenky met yesterday with a senior official at Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO), Ahmad Fayazbakhsh, to discuss the progress of start-up work at the Bushehr plant, RIA Novosti news agency reported. A series of UN sanctions has been imposed on Iran over its controversial nuclear programme amid Western suspicions that it has military goals. Ali Akbar Salehi, who heads the IAEO, said recently the Bushehr plant was 96 per cent complete, and that almost all of the equipment had been installed. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said this week Moscow was close to finishing the construction of the Bushehr plant and is currently making final adjustments. The construction of the Bushehr plant was started in 1975 by German companies. However, the firms stopped work after a US embargo was imposed on high technology supplies to Iran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent US embassy siege in Tehran. Russia signed a contract with Iran to complete the plant in February 1998, originally due for completion at the end of 2006.
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