Bushehr plant to operate in full capacity

Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant will join the national grid in its full capacity in upcoming months, ISNA quoted Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) as saying. “Nuclear electricity with the capacity of 1,000 megawatts will be connected to the national network” early in the next Iranian year (starting March 20), after final tests are successfully implemented, Fereydoun Abbasi said on Sunday. He further said that nearly 700 megawatts of nuclear power produced by the Bushehr nuclear power plant was already added to the national grid in mid February. The Bushehr plant was officially launched by Iranian officials in September and began operations by generating electricity at 40 percent of its capacity. The 1,000-megawatt plant had been already connected to the country's national power grid with the power of 60 MW on September 3, 2011.

"Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant will join the national grid in its full capacity in upcoming months, ISNA quoted Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) as saying"It reached the capacity of 190 MW on September 27, 2011 and a day later it raised the capacity to 300 MW. The plant gained 50 percent of its nominal power last October as it reached the capacity of 420 MW. The nuclear power plant is located southeast of the city of Bushehr along the Persian Gulf