OREANDA-NEWS. June 15, 2009. Start-up activities are underway at the construction site of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (Iran): the personnel have loaded fuel assembly mock-ups into the reactor, have prepared the technological systems of the first circuit for hydro-testing and have started the assembly of the reactor.

The loading of fuel assembly mock-ups is an important stage of the commissioning campaign and is a preparation for the reactor’s assembly and the hydro-testing and circulatory washing of the first and second circuits.

The project is receiving stable financing. All the problems are being effectively solved.

The project is complying with the schedule agreed on by Atomstroyexport and the Iranian party. The start-up campaign is near completion.