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Iran gets nuclear fuel from Russia for Bushehr
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has received a new shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia for its first nuclear power plant, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday, a key step following the plant’s recent startup. Hamid Khadem Qaemi, spokesman for Iran’s nuclear agency, said Russia delivered a total of 33 tons (30 metric tons) by plane over the last week for Bushehr. The amount is meant for the plant’s second year of operation, IRNA quoted Qaemi as saying.
Assuming they can clear the Stuxnet II virus...
Iran last year said that the much-delayed operation of the plant was to begin last December. Russia had already delivered 90 tons (82 metric tons) in eight shipments in 2007 and 2008, sufficient for a one-year consumption in Bushehr’s 1,000 megawatt light-water reactor.

But in February, Russia ordered that fuel be removed because of concerns that metal particles might be contaminating fuel assemblies; reloading began in April.

On Tuesday, Atomstroyexport, the Russian state company that built Bushehr, said the first reactor at the plant had gone into operation after a self-sustained fission reaction began Sunday.
Posted by: Steve White 2011-05-12
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