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Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also... Email Print Related News Russian says Iran atomic plant to operate in weeks 8:00am EDT Iran gets another nuclear fuel batch from Russia: report Wed, May 11 2011 Iran tells EU next atom talks must be without pressure Tue, May 10 2011 Iran nuclear plant operates at low level in key step Tue, May 10 2011 Japan to shut nuclear plant on quake fears Mon, May 9 2011 Analysis & Opinion Extracting Pakistan, bin Laden and its US past The East German puppet pulls the Soviet strings Related Topics World » Russia » Nuclear Power » A general view of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, some 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran October 26, 2010. Credit: Reuters/IRNA/Mohammad Babaie By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW | Thu May 12, 2011 11:04am EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran's Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant will be fully operational within weeks, local news agencies quoted a senior Russian diplomat as saying on Thursday. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also said the six global powers seeking to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons should affirm they are ready for fresh contacts with Tehran on its atomic program, according to the reports. Ryabkov spoke two days after the Russian state company that built the Bushehr plant, a politically charged project that has run into many delays, said the reactor had begun operating at a low level for tests before it is brought on line. "The final launch of Bushehr is a matter of the coming weeks," state-run RIA quoted Ryabkov as saying. "This is a longstanding project and so I would refrain from naming concrete dates -- but we are already on the threshold of the full launch of the reactor." Begun in the 1970s by a German consortium, the project was abandoned after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Its completion has been postponed many times since Russia took it over in the mid-1990s under a $1 billion deal with Tehran. Iran began loading fuel into Bushehr and it had been expected to go online early this year, but it encountered more delays including what officials said was a technical problem that required removal of the fuel assemblies. "We are proceeding under a schedule agreed with our Iranian partners after the well-known episode involving removal of fuel from the reactor's active zone," Ryabkov was quoted as saying. On Monday, a member of an Iranian parliamentary commission monitoring Bushehr said "final tests" were being conducted, and Iran's Fars news agency said the plant would start providing power to the national grid within two months. Using nuclear fuel from Russia, the Bushehr plant's single reactor is to produce 1,000 megawatts, about 2.5 percent of Iran's electricity usage. Oil-producing Iran says it plans a network of nuclear power plants and that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. The United States and other Western nations for years urged Russia to abandon the Bushehr project, fearing it would help Iran develop the means to produce nuclear weapons. An agreement obliging Tehran to repatriate the reactor's spent nuclear fuel to Russia eased those concerns, because such fuel can be reprocessed into plutonium for the core of bombs. But Iran has rejected international calls for a halt to uranium enrichment at a complex separate from Bushehr, despite intermittent talks with global powers and four rounds of U.N. Security Council sanctions meant to rein in enrichment activity. Highly enriched uranium can also fuel atomic bombs. Iran says it is refining uranium only to low levels for power plants. The most recent negotiations with Iran failed in January. The European Union said on Wednesday that Tehran's response to an EU letter aimed at reviving talks with the six powers -- Russia, China, the United States, Britain, France and Germany -- did not appear to justify another meeting. Ryabkov also said Iran's response was too vague but added that it was "an important signal, and it is necessary for the 'sextet' to affirm its readiness for contacts," RIA reported. (Additional reporting by Alexei Anishchuk; editing by Mark Heinrich) World Russia Nuclear Power Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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