By Prensa Latina
Tehran : The Islamic Republic of Iran announced that the seventh shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia arrived in this country on Saturday for a power plant being built in the southern port of Bushehr.
A report from the Iranian Atomic Energy Development and Production Company said that with this consignment, 77 tons of nuclear fuel of the 82 planned have been supplied by Russia.
Iran has said Bushehr, the country’s first nuclear reactor, will begin operating at 50 percent in the summer of 2008, producing half its 1,000-megawatt capacity of electricity.
Russian authorities will send the last shipment in the agreed term, which according to Moscow sources should arrive in the Iranian territory in February this year.
Iranian and Russian presidents, Mahmoud Admadineyah and Vladimir Putin, respectively, signed the nuclear fuel supply deal during the Summit of the Heads of States of the countries of the Caspian Sea region, which ended with important cooperation agreements.
Tehran received the first two shipments of nuclear fuel from Russia on Dec. 17 and Dec. 28, under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.