Russia's nuclear
power chief will visit Iran to prepare the nuclear fuel operation of the joint
Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, ISNA news agency reported
Saturday.
ISNA said that Sergei Kiriyenko will arrive in Tehran on Sunday for
talks with officials of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, ISNA said.
Kiriyenko is also scheduled to go to the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr and
inspect the latest developments in the plant there.
Iran's Atomic Energy Organization head Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh said the Russian
side was committed to launching the Bushehr plant as scheduled.
Russia finished delivery of 82 tons of low-enriched uranium for the plant's
light-water reactor in January, and Kiriyenko said in June that nuclear fuel
operations would start this year.
The Iran-Russia joint project was originally supposed to be
completed at the beginning of the millennium but has been delayed at least five
times for various reasons, dpa
reported.