Iran preparing to take control of Bushehr nuclear plant

Source : Tehran Times

TEHRAN – Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Fereydoun Abbasi has announced that Iranian experts will make the preparations necessary to take over the full control of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in late 2012 or early 2013.

The Bushehr power plant is undergoing final tests, and arations for the handover of the power plant by the Russian r to Iranian experts will be made in the near future,” Abbasi told in Bushehr on Saturday.

ous tests and experiments at the Bushehr power plant, we will preliminary launch of the project by Iranian experts in Dey or December 21, 2012 to February 18, 2013.”

eneral of NIAEP Valeryi Limarenko, who manages the construction nt by Atomstroyexport, the general contractor, said on October 19 ng of the act of acceptance for Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant is ed for March 2013.

o said at the time that they had been implementing some new processes, and it had become clear that to perform the work well, ed some more time, and therefore signing of the acceptance act put off until March 2013.

o also noted that after the nuclear power plant in Bushehr was by the Iranian side, at least 300 Russian personnel would stay in lp maintain the plant.

ar plant, which is located near the port of Bushehr on the coast of n Gulf, was plugged into Iran’s national grid in September 2011. In 12, Rosatom said that it was fully operational.