Iran officials said a leak at the Bushehr nuclear power plant will prevent it from beginning operation this year. The delay comes as experts suggest the facility might have been targeted by a foreign government using the Stuxnet computer worm.LaFranchi, Howard...
MOSCOW, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Iran's first nuclear power plant, Bushehr, will not be completed and operational as scheduled by the end of next year, the Russian media cited the Russian contractor as saying on Thursday. "The plant's launch cannot be guaranteed before the end of 2008," Se...
According to the ISNA, the project involves the construction of four power plant units, each with a power generation capacity of 1,250 MW. Iran's other nuclear power plant is located in the southern province of Bushehr. The power plant became operational in 2011 and has an electricity generat...
TEHRAN, Iran --Iranbegan building its second nuclear power plant with Russian help on Saturday, the first such project since last year’s landmarknuclear dealwith world powers. The project in the southern port city of Bushehr will eventually include two power plants expected to go online in 10...
Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. Source: Reuters The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is Iran’s only currently operational civil nuclear power reactor. It operates by heating water to produce steam, which in turn drives turbines to generate electricity. Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant The Bushehr Power Plant ...
Soviet aid has also played an important role in the development of the food and fishing industries and in the construction of electrical power plants, such as the steam power plant in Tabriz (completed in 1970), the Araks River hydroelectric power plant, and the construction of the Araks ...
Earthquake has no effect on Iran's nuclear power plant: official (Xinhua) 08:25, April 11, 2013 TEHRAN,April10 (Xinhua) --ExecutivemanagerofIran'sBushehrnuclearpowerplant,MahmoudJafari,saidWednesdaythatthestructureofBushehrnuclearpowerplantisstrongenoughtoresistearthquakesatthescaleof8Richter,officialIRNA...
Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, has said the first reactor of Iran's long-delayed Bushehr nuclear power plant will be launched in the middle of this year. Iran handed over the Bushehr project to Russia in 1995. The launch of Bushehr has been postponed frequently in recent years....
MOSCOW, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Iran's first nuclear power plant, Bushehr, will not be completed and operational as scheduled by the end of next year, the Russian media cited the Russian contractor as saying on Thursday. "The plant's launch cannot be guaranteed before the end of 2008," Se...
"The countdown to the Bushehr nuclear power plant has started," Kiriyenko said. "Congratulations." Iran's hard-liners consider the completion of the plant to be a show of defiance against U.N. Security Council sanctions that seek to slow Iran's other nuclear advances. ...