DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - RUSSIA/IRAN: BUSHEHR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WILL NOT BE LAUNCHED UNTIL 2008

Physical launch of Bushehr NPP to take place no earlier than fall 2008 - sub-contractor

MOSCOW. July 25 (Interfax) - The physical launch of the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been postponed for at least a year, until the fall of 2008 at the earliest, head of Energoprogress, one of the sub- contractors of the construction of the Iranian NPP, Ivan Istomin said, adding that the main reason is that Iran has not been making the due payments for a long time.



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1) Physical launch of Bushehr NPP to take place no earlier than fall 2008 - sub-contractor