Iran loads fuel into the Bushehr nuclear reactor

LONDON. October 26. KAZINFORM Iran has begun loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant, state television has reported; Kazinform refers to BBC.

Iranian and Russian engineers started moving nuclear fuel into the main reactor building at Bushehr in August but this was halted and the work delayed.

Russia will operate the facility in southern Iran, supplying its nuclear fuel and taking away the nuclear waste.

Iran says the plant will begin generating electricity in early 2011.

German engineers began work on the Bushehr nuclear facility began in 1975. The project, completed with help from Russia, has been plagued by delays.

Iran has been subject to four rounds of UN sanctions because of its separate uranium enrichment programme.

Experts say that as long as the Bushehr plant is Russian-operated, there is little chance of proliferation; Kazinform cites BBC.

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