{"id":41158,"date":"2010-08-13T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/13\/irans-bushehr-nuclear-power-plant-ready-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:39:00","slug":"irans-bushehr-nuclear-power-plant-ready-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/13\/irans-bushehr-nuclear-power-plant-ready-for-launch.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Ready for Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'; font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 17px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Iran has successfully carried out the principal tests of the country&#8217;s first nuclear power plant as it gears up for launch in the near future, says an official, reports Iran&#8217;s Press TV.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\">\u201cA 250 bar (atmospheric) pressure test has been successfully carried out at the Bushehr nuclear plant in order to ensure the systems&#8217; working status,\u201d IRNA quoted Mahmoud Jafari, a senior nuclear official with the plant, as saying on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;All the installations and tests are now complete and the plant is now headed for launch,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The Islamic Republic has also carried out other tests earlier in the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">In February, tests were carried out at the power plant using \u201cdummy\u201d fuel rods loaded with lead in place of enriched uranium to simulate nuclear fuel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The Bushehr plant was originally scheduled to be completed in 1999 with the help from Iran&#8217;s Russian partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has successfully carried out the principal tests of the country&#8217;s first nuclear power plant as it gears up for launch in&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[10499,10297,10502,10498,10500,10501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}