Bushehr power plant to produce 400 megawatts electricity initially
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Sept 15, IRNA -- Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali-Akbar Salehi said on Wednesday that by mid December Bushehr power plant will generate 400 megawatts electricity, 40 percent of its nominal capacity.
Salehi told IRNA that fuel will be loaded into Bushehr power plant in October.
He said the work of fuel transfer into Bushehr reactor’s building started on August 21 in presence of Iran’s AEOI Chief and Russia's nuclear agency chief Sergei Kiriyenko.
Salehi said that heart of the reactor has been washed now and 10 to 15 virtual fuel facilities enter and then leave heart of the reactor in order for fuel loading process test.
In case the tests prove positive, said Salehi, adding, 'we will start injecting fuel into heart of the reactor by October.'
He noted that there are two storage houses for fresh fuels as well as storage houses or pools for the spent fuels in the main building of the reactor.
He added that by early October the 60 fuel complexes will get out of the fresh fuel store houses for fuel loading at heart of the reactor.
Concurrently, he said, 60 other fuel facilities will be put in store houses of fresh fuels so that 163 fuel facilities will be re-loaded with fuel gradually in the store house.
It will take about 20 to 25 days to re-load the fuel, he said
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