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    IRAN'S FIRST NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PROVIDES ELECTRICITY

    AZG DAILY
    06-09-2011

    Iran's first nuclear power plant has finally begun to provide
    electricity to the national grid, official media reported on Sunday,
    a long-delayed milestone in the nuclear ambitions of a country the
    West fears is covertly try to develop atomic bombs.

    "The Atomic Energy Agency announced that atomic electricity from
    Bushehr power plant joined the national grid with a power of around
    60 megawatts on Saturday at 2329 (1859 GMT)," the official news agency
    IRNA reported.

    The start-up will come as a relief to Tehran after many years of
    delays and false starts at the plant it hopes will show the world it
    has joined the nuclear club despite sanctions imposed in an attempt
    to curb its disputed nuclear progress.

    The $1-billion, 1,000-megawatt Bushehr plant will be formally
    inaugurated on September 12, by which time it will be operating at
    40 percent capacity, Hamid-Khadem Qaemi, spokesman for the Atomic
    Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), told the state-controlled Arabic
    language TV station al-Alam.

    The AEOI was not immediately available to comment.

    The plant on the Gulf coast is the first of what Iran says will become
    a network of nuclear facilities that will reduce its reliance on its
    abundant fossil fuels and is a showpiece of what it says is a purely
    peaceful atomic programme.

    Bushehr's start-up comes with Russia pushing to revive talks between
    global powers and Iran about its separate uranium enrichment work,
    seen abroad as a potential proliferation threat since highly refined
    uranium fuels atomic bombs.

    Iran says it is enriching uranium only to lower levels suitable for
    power plant fuel or medical and agricultural uses.

    But it has also started shifting its most sensitive enrichment
    operations to a mountain bunker that would be better protected against
    a possible pre-emptive U.S. or Israeli military strike, Reuter reports.




    From: A. Papazian
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