Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 6
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
Bushehr nuclear power plant has produced 3 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity since the fuel change, the director of the NPP, Hossein Derakhshandeh said, the country's Mehr news agency reported Jan. 6.
After the fuel change completed in June, 2013 the power plant got again connected to the country's electricity network with full capacity (1000 megawatts), Derakhshandeh added.
However the power plant currently produces 700 megawatts of electricity, Derakhshandeh said.
Bushehr NPP which was inaugurated in September 2013 has a capacity of producing 1000 megawatts of electricity. The power plant is scheduled to produce up to 5 billion megawatt hours of electricity per year, which is about 2 percent of country's total electricity production.
The facility produced 6.8 billion kilowatt hours of electricity after inauguration till its temporarily shutdown in February 2013 to change about 27 metric tons of its fuel and semi-basic periodic repairs.
The core of the Bushehr reactor is composed of 163 fuel assemblies of which 54 should be changed every year.
Supplying the fuel of Iran's only nuclear power plant -Bushehr, is guaranteed by Russia for 10 years. Russia delivered 82 tons of nuclear fuel in 2008 and 30 more tons in May 2011 to Iran. This amount meets the Bushehr NPP's fuel needs for four years.
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