Russia to deliver fuel shipment a year after Bushehr launch | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russia will deliver its next fuel shipment to Iran’s nuclear power plant, Bushehr, a year after the plant is launched, the president of Russia’s nuclear fuel producer TVEL said on Wednesday.
‘The next fuel delivery will be needed a year after the launch of the reactor; if the launch takes place this year, the fuel will be shipped in 2011,’ Yury Olenin told journalists in Bratislava.
Olenin explained that the nuclear power plant needs two fuel canisters a year. The first one was sent to Iran in 2007 and the second has already been produced in Novosibirsk, Siberia, he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last month that Iran’s first nuclear power plant, Bushehr, will be launched this year.”