Posted on 03/04/2009 12:21:27 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Iran said on Wednesday that its much-delayed nuclear power plant, where testing began last month, would start generating electricity by September 2009.
The 1,000-megawatt Russian-built plant in the southern port city of Bushehr will first generate around 500 megawatts, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told parliament, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"Since the fuel for the power plant is in Iran, the project will be operational in the summer (the quarter ending September) and generate 500 megawatts of electricity that would be transmitted to the national grid."
The plant will achieve full capacity in the second half of the Iranian year to March 2010, he said.
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That means the ones we don’t know about should be hot next month.
Ping, just in case. ;)
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