Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant[/caption]A high-ranking Iranian nuclear official says Iran will launch the second stage of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in southern Iran in April.
Asghar Zarean, deputy Managing Director for Protection and Security at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said on Saturday that the second stage would be launched on April 9 on the National Nuclear Technology Day.
He added that on the National Nuclear Technology Day, Iran will also unveil the vaccine separator centrifuge machine.
Earlier this month, Russias Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation said Tehran and Moscow were negotiating the construction of a second unit at the Bushehr plant.
The initial construction of the Bushehr facility began in 1975 by German companies, but the work was halted following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
After signing a deal on the construction of nuclear plants in 1992, Tehran and Moscow reached an agreement in 1995 to complete Irans Bushehr nuclear power plant, but the project was delayed several times due to a number of technical and financial problems.
The plant became officially operational and was connected to Irans national grid in September 2011, generating electricity at 40-percent capacity.
The 1,000-megawatt plant, which is operating under the full supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), reached its maximum power generation capacity in August 2012.
In September 2013, Iran officially took over from Russia the first unit of its first 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant for two years.
By Press TV
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