Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran will announce good news on nuclear energy in near future.
“We have messages about new nuclear achievements which will be announced within the next few months,” IRNA quoted Salehi as saying on Wednesday.
According to the Iranian official, good news will be given to the Iranian nation on gasoline production on Saturday.
Iran’s nuclear point man called attention to the upcoming start-up of the country’s first nuclear power plant in southern Iran and said, “Inauguration of the plant will be a thorn in the eye of the ill-wishers.”
He added that the Bushehr power plant will come online 31 years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in spite of the extraordinary pressure and sanctions on Iran.
Salehi said the Islamic Republic needs at least 20,000 megawatts of nuclear-generated electricity for its development and progress.
“When a country has nuclear know-how, it can make progress in other sciences as well,” he went on to say.
He said that Bushehr and Darkhovin, located in the southern province of Khuzestan, are the main origins of Iran’s power plants.
“Germany was supposed to produce 2,000 megawatts of electricity in Bushehr while France was set to generate 2,000 megawatts in Darkhovin. However, they did not remain committed to their promises,” he further explained.
On Friday, a spokesman for the Russian atomic agency Rosatom, Sergei Novikov, said Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant will come online next week.
“The fuel will begin charging in the reactor on August 21. From this moment, Bushehr will be considered a nuclear installation,” Novikov said.
Iranian officials have announced that nuclear fuel would be loaded into the long-delayed plant on September 16 to make the nuclear reactor operational.
Western corporations began the construction of the Bushehr facility in the 1970s. Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Western companies reneged on their commitments and pulled out of the project due to political pressure from Washington.
Iran then turned to Russia to complete the project. In 1992, Tehran and Moscow signed a deal to complete the construction of the nuclear power plant.
The Bushehr plant was originally scheduled to be completed in 1999, but its start-up has been repeatedly delayed.
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