Posted on 09/29/2010 7:45:18 AM PDT by nuconvert
TEHRAN — Iran's atomic chief said on Wednesday that the country's first nuclear power plant will be ready to generate electricity by January -- two months later than announced.
Ali Akbar Salehi said that the process of placing fuel rods at the Bushehr facility, built by Russia, would be completed by the "middle of" the Iranian month of Aban, around November 7, the state television's website reported.
"Two or three months from then, the electricity generated by the plant will be connected to the grid," said Salehi, chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation.
Iran began loading the Russian-supplied fuel rods on August 21 and Ali Shirzadian, spokesman for the atomic body, had then said the plant would be connected to the national grid by end of October or early November.
But Salehi later had said that the loading would begin at the end of the Iranian month of Shahrivar (September 22) and by the end of the month of Mehr (October 22), the lid of the reactor would be shut.
Salehi, in an interview with Al-Alam television on August 31, blamed the delays on Bushehr's "severe hot weather" and safety concerns, adding that the loading was being done during the night.
Iran has not hinted at any other reasons for the delay, but officials have acknowledged that a computer worm is mutating and wreaking havoc on computerised industrial equipment in the country, where an official said on Monday that about 30,000 IP addresses had already been infected.
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Sounds like they have run into some kind of roadblock and are stuck somehow. Or should I say ‘stux’?
I’d prefer to see this headline: Iran nuclear plant hit
Net.
I think NSA or more likely Israel stux a wrench in the machinery.
Stux to be you, Ahmadinejad.
Funny, kind of coincides with say, some time after November 3rd?
my money is on Israel
LOL!
You mean to tell me that the Iranians don't have control of temperature for a process like this? They are building a nuclear reactor without the capability of installing air conditioning? How hard is it to scrape up a few refrigerated truck boxes to store the material, or install an air conditioning system on a building? It's not as if the ammonia cycle is rocket science!
Who needs bombs? These idiots will blow themselves up on their own.
“some time after November 3rd?”
I’d say that’s good news. Perhaps after the tsunami hits on Nov. 2, a humbled Obama will be ready to work with Israel to execute a coordinated plan to take out Iran’s nuclear capability. Admittedly, it’s hard to imagine a “humbled” POTUS, but then again, we’ve never seen his reaction to a tsunami the size of the one coming in less than 6 weeks.
They have had to divert resources to finish the solution to the Jewish “problem”.
It may have been hit. That is what all the breeze about stuxnet is about.
It could well have been our own guys. The Kenyan would not necessarily have known about it. Or it could be Germany or some Jewish whiz kid in his bedroom in Warsaw.
Stux to be the Iranians, eh?
Mine as well. No way would Obama have the cojones to do it.
Stuxnet is MUTATING!?!?!?
Perhaps this worm is far more sophisticated than originally thought...and it was already assessed as the most sophisticated worm ever detected.
He will and shall take it personal....his ego will tank.
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