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Iran Nuke Plant Goes Online

Bushehr joins power grid, be inaugurated next Monday

By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 4, 2011 12:09 PM CDT

(Newser) – Just in case you got a good night's sleep, you can stew on this tonight: Iran says its Bushehr nuclear plant went online last night, beginning testing on the national power grid that had been delayed for years. The Russian-built plant, which Tehran says will eventually supply 2.5% of the nation's electricity, was eking out about 60 megawatts, CNN reports. Eventually, it's slated to crank out 1,000 megawatts.

Iran's state-run news agency says it plans to inaugurate the plant next Monday. The move comes in the wake of an IAEA report that warned of increasing concern over the possibility that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, and which accused it of continuing to ignore sanctions.

The reactor building at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant as the first fuel is loaded, on August 21, 2010 in Bushehr, southern Iran. (Getty Images)

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clarenccharlie

Sep 5, 2011 1:27 AM CDT

I rember it seem like a just yesterday but longer. when black drug dealers that know mafia was asking for weapon of masss destruction what to hide in Iran whish they buy or rent a house near the powe plant . same people was handling mafia drug in Hawaii

brawne

Sep 4, 2011 6:58 PM CDT

Wow, how scary is this? Persia which never had that much in the way of oil reserves and coughed then up decades ago cause they thought that we were sorta nice people is getting off the oil tit. If anyone knows how little milk is left in that tit it's Iran. Nuclear power to make electricity--I'd say they have every right to it. Know how much work it takes to make the plutonium for a bomb? Well, you should since we did it purely for killing- people reasons back in the forties. Know what made Einstein go to FDR with his atomic bomb idea? Cause he was a pacifist who watched the Germans make mustard gas in WWI which is just clorox and vinegar and he freaked cause he thought they'd use his theory to split an atom. They didn't. He made it happen here and why even a genius can be so very, very wrong. Hey--he died with that on his plate. We don't get to say shit cause we started this mess. What do you think Albert said--my, God, if Hitler gets this he will use it. Who the bloody hell used it? Head out of ass and into reality. It's not easy, but it keeps us all alive.

NxBigmouthery

Sep 4, 2011 6:12 PM CDT

It went online? Where's the link?

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