Iran says its engineers are ready to work on nuclear plant
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iranian engineers trained in Russia are ready to begin work at the country's first nuclear power plant, Nuclear official Ahmad Fayyazbakhsh said Tuesday.
Fayyazbakhsh said about 700 Iranian engineers who spent the past four years in Russia were ready to "operate" the plant in the southern port of Bushehr.
In a report Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency quoted Fayyazbakhsh as saying that he plant would begin working later in the current Iranian calendar year, which ends in March 2009.
Iran is still finishing building the 1,000-megawatt nuclear plant and Russia is helping with the construction.
Teheran also plans to build a 360-megawatt nuclear power plant in Darkhovin, in the southwestern Khuzestan province.
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