Iran gets more Russian nuclear fuel
Saturday, January 19, 2008
TEHRAN: Russia on Friday delivered a third consignment of fuel for Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power station, the official news agency IRNA reported.
“The third load of fuel arrived Friday morning at the Bushehr site” in the south of the country, IRNA quoted the Organization for Production and Development of Nuclear Energy as saying in a statement.
Like the first two consignments, the third weighed 11 tonnes. The five loads to come “will be delivered to Iran under the foreseen calendar,” the statement added.
Russia is to deliver a total of some 82 tonnes of nuclear fuel in eight consignments over a two-month period. The first and second loads were delivered on December 17 and 28. afp