IRAN'S PLANS TO INCREASE VOLUME OF NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLIES ARE NOT RELATED TO LAUNCH OF BUSHEHR NPP
RIA Novosti
MOSCOW, February 14 (RIA Novosti) - Iran's plans to become one of the largest suppliers of nuclear fuel are not related to the planned 2006 launch of the Bushehr nuclear power plant (NPP), the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) told RIA Novosti.
On Sunday, an Iranian state official announced Tehran's plans to become one of the largest global suppliers of nuclear fuel in 15 years.
Commenting on the statement, a Rosatom expert noted "the production of nuclear fuel is a very complex technological process, and it can be economically sound only if a country has several nuclear power plants."
In accordance with a Russian-Iranian agreement, Russia will supply nuclear fuel to the Bushehr NPP during the entire period of its operation. Therefore, Iran will be able to accomplish its plans only if it constructs several more nuclear power-generating units.
Russian experts are constructing the first power-generating unit at the Bushehr NPP with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts. The launch is planned for 2005, and the unit will become fully operational in 2006.
It was reported earlier that Russia planned to construct six power-generating units of the NPP in Iran over a ten-year period.
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