Tehran - Iran carried out final tests its first nuclear plant and it is planned to begin producing electricity in the next two months, the Iranian media, said Monday.
Intended to be the first of a network of nuclear power plants that iran says it is planning, the Russian-built Bushehr complex exceeded the period after the date limit coming on flows, most recently fuel had to be removed and checked for technical problems.
The Fars news agency said that Bushehr would begin injection of power in the national network of electricity over the next two months.
"Right now, after the fuel rods were unloaded in the heart of the reactor have been washed, they are loaded again and final tests are underway," Gholamali Miglinejad, a member of a parliamentary Committee monitoring Bushehr, was quoted saying by the student ISNA news agency.
The Iran began to load fuel in Bushehr last August of foreign and national media, touting as a symbol of resistance to international sanctions imposed by countries who suspect that the Islamic State is seeking nuclear weaponssomething she denies.
At this time, Iranian officials said it would take two to three months of Bushehr begin to produce energy, and that it would generate 1,000 megawatts, about 2.5 percent of the Iran electricity consumption. The Russia is the fuel for Bushehr.
But the start-up of the plant was hit by several delays since, with some analysts blaming the mysterious Stuxnet computer virus. Stuxnet said Tehran has plagued personal computers at Bushehr, but not step affected major systems there.
Security experts say the worm may have been an attack supported by the State on the Iranian nuclear programme and of goods originating in the United States or the Israel. None of the two countries mentioned no link with Stuxnet.
Security sources and diplomats say the Western Governments and sabotage of view Israel as a way to slow down the Iran nuclear work.
NUCLEAR SABOTAGE IN IRAN?
Some analysts argue that iran may suffer broader sabotage aimed at slowing his nuclear advances, pointing to a series of unexplained technical problems that have reduced the number of working centrifuge at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant.
Natanz is at the heart of Western concerns about the nuclear intentions of the Iran since the country, without any other nuclear power plants that Bushehr, has no current civilian use for enriched uranium. Western leaders believe that iran, the world largest oil and gas producers, secretly aims to refine the uranium to a level suitable for atomic bombs.
Earlier this month, an Iranian official said as his country had been hit by a new malware called "Stars". But foreign experts have expressed their doubt as this represented a second cyber attack.
The Bushehr plant was started by German electronics giant Siemens in the 1970s, but the project was interrupted by the Iran in 1979 Islamic revolution.
The later completed Russia plant and will supply its fuel.
To mitigate the concerns abroad, that the Iran could reprocess spent fuel for Bushehr in bomb-grade plutonium bars, Russia repatriate the spent fuel. The plant will also regularly followed by the inspectors of the UN nuclear monitoring agency.
Western officials have asked Iran to accede to the Convention of 1996 on nuclear safety, saying that the Islamic State would be the only country to operate a nuclear reactor which is not part of the international Covenant, once Bushehr is launched.
The convention, with 72 States signatories now, has been designed to enhance global nuclear security, an issue which has gained more importance in crisis nuclear the Japan Fukushima, through a system of peer review and mutual monitoring.
"Location of the plant on the coast makes the security of Iran's nuclear program a concern of regional security", the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank, said in a report last month.
He noted that Bushehr, as Fukushima, is in a seismic zone. But the Iran does not have to fear a tsunami of the size of the electricity blackout and back-up to Fukushima cooling systems, as Bushehr is located on the Gulf and not an ocean.
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