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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Iran to fire up first nuclear power plant next week AFP - Saturday, August 14 Send IM Story Print TEHRAN (AFP) - – Iran is to launch its first nuclear power reactor next week, the Islamic republic and Russia which helped build the plant said on Friday after years of delays to the highly sensitive project. The United States said the announcement showed that Tehran no longer needed to pursue its controversial programme of uranium enrichment. "We are preparing to transfer the fuel inside the plant next week... Then we will need seven to eight days to transfer it to the reactor (core)," said Iran's atomic energy chief, Ali Akbar Salehi. "On August 21, the fuel will be transferred inside the building in which the engine" of the Bushehr power station in southern Iran is located, he said, quoted by Iran's Fars news agency. Salehi added that Iran had invited inspectors from the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, to attend the launch ceremony. "The fuel is sealed and IAEA inspectors must be present to remove them," he said. The rest of the Russia-supplied fuel will be transferred to the core on September 5, Salehi said, according to Mehr news agency. It would take two more weeks for the reactor to reach 50 percent of its power generation capacity, allowing it then to be linked to the national grid, the atomic chief added. "It will take six to seven months to reach the maximum power level of the plant," he said. In Washington, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the fact that Russia was "providing the fuel, and taking the fuel back out" for reprocessing shows that "Iran doesn't need its own enrichment capabilities." Salehi's comments on Friday came soon after Russian atomic agency Rosatom said the Bushehr plant would be formally launched in just over a week's time. "The fuel will be charged in the reactor on August 21. From this moment, Bushehr will be considered a nuclear installation," Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov said. "This can be considered as the physical launch." Russia has been building the plant since the mid-1990s but the project was marred by delays, and the issue is hugely sensitive amid Tehran's standoff with the West and Israel over its nuclear ambitions. The UN Security Council hit Tehran with a fourth set of sanctions on June 9 over its nuclear programme, and the United States and European Union followed up with tougher punitive measures targeting Iran's banking and energy sectors. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a hardline senior cleric who heads a key parliamentary oversight committee, vowed on Friday that Iran would never buckle under sanctions. "The West's problem is that they do not know the Iranian nation and do not know who they are dealing with," IRNA news agency quoted him as saying. Officials in Russia said the Bushehr launch ceremony would be attended by Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko, his Iranian counterpart Salehi and possibly the Russian energy minister. Ties between Moscow and Tehran have cooled in recent months as Russia toughened its line on Iran's nuclear drive, but Prime Minister Vladimir Putin this year confirmed the plant would start up in the summer. Western countries accuse oil-rich Iran of seeking to acquire a nuclear weapon under the guise of its civilian nuclear programme, but Tehran insists the drive is entirely peaceful. Rosatom officials emphasised it would still take time for the 1,000 MW capacity power plant to start significant work, with the facility operating at a minimal power of one percent after three-four months. Under the contract between Russia and Iran, Moscow has already sent the nuclear fuel for the plant, with Iran committed to send spent fuel back to Russia for reprocessing. Russia in late 2007 and early 2008 delivered to Iran a full consignment of 82 tonnes of nuclear fuel, which has since been stored under IAEA safeguards. President Dmitry Medvedev said earlier this month that Iran was close to attaining the potential to build a nuclear weapon, the first time a Russian leader had warned so explicitly of the dangers of Tehran's nuclear drive. Russian officials have always said Iran has a right to the use of peaceful nuclear energy. The Bushehr project was first launched by the late shah in the 1970s using contractors from German firm Siemens. But it was shelved when he was deposed in the 1979 Islamic revolution. It was revived after the death of revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, as Iran's new supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his first president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, backed the project. In 1995, Iran won the support of Russia which agreed to finish building the plant and fuel it. 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