Russia has delivered more than half the fuel for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, after a fourth consignment arrived.
"The fourth consignment of fuel arrived on Sunday morning, weighing 11 tons at the Bushehr site" in southern Iran, the news agency quoted the Organisation for Production and Development of Nuclear Energy as saying in a statement on Sunday.
Russia has so far delivered 44 tonnes of fuel, after shipments which arrived on 17,18th December and 18th January.
It is due to deliver a total of some 82 tonnes of nuclear fuel in eight consignments, with the last due next month.
Iran insisted on 30th Dec that its first nuclear power station would be launched in the summer of 2008, despite the plant's Russian constructors saying it would not go on line until the end of the year.
"The Bushehr nuclear power station will launch at a capacity of 50 per cent next summer," said Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, quoted by the news agency.
A Russian contractor is finishing the construction of the much-delayed 1,000-megawatt plant in Bushehr.
Moscow also agreed to deliver the nuclear fuel required by the facility.
After delivery of the first shipment of fuel, Russia said that Iran no longer needed to pursue its own uranium enrichment, a message repeated by US President George W Bush.
Tehran refuses to suspend its uranium enrichment activities despite UN Security Council resolutions and two sets of sanctions demanding the Islamic republic suspend its sensitive nuclear activities.- Source: By DDI News
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