TEHRAN, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The launch of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant operation has been postponed, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant will launch operation by the end of 2009, Iran's Ambassador to Moscow Seyed Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi told Fars on Tuesday.
Sajjadi said that Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russian Rosatom, the state nuclear energy corporation, "announced that the company has a plan to launch the operation of Bushehr plant by the end of this year."
Kiriyenko made the remarks during a meeting held in Moscow withDeputy Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Saeedi, according to Sajjadi.
In April, Iran's Energy Minister Parviz Fattah said the Bushehrnuclear power plant will start to generate electricity from mid-summer.
"Bushehr nuclear power plant will generate 500 megawatt electricity from mid-summer," Fattah was quoted as saying by localIRNA news agency.
The operation of the Bushehr nuclear power plant had been Iranians' old dream, he added.
The country's 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant originally started in the mid-1970s by Siemens of Germany but was abandoned with the outbreak of the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iran and Russia, after reaching an agreement on nuclear cooperation in 1992, signed a contract in January 1995 to finish the construction of the plant, the completion of which has been repeatedly delayed.
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