built by russia has started operating under the strict control of the un atomic watchdog archies oksana boyko reports on the watch that happen despite international concerns or tehran's nuclear ambitions. more than thirty years in the making with a price tag of over two billion dollars by all accounts the pushchair nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and one for which iran has spared no expense the chaplet have always been more than just an education are ready to sell it for money it's a symbol of the country's social progress and proof but it's more in touch by critics the embodiment of the slavic republics an ideological backwardness and a vivid example of a building which a diplomatic bargaining chip for years the station has finally come closer to fulfilling its practical purpose but the first batch of nuclear fuel just loaded into the reactor the station is expected to start producing electricity by the end of this year but iran's top nuclear officials says it's already time for celebration we are grateful to the people of russia to the government of pressure to our great fri

of the un atomic watchdog amid international concerns over terrazas nuclear ambitions artie's oksana boyko was at the grand opening. more than thirty years in the making with a price tag of over two billion dollars by all accounts the nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and one for which iran has spared no expense the chaparral have always been more than just an education or ready to sell it for all it's a symbol of the country's social progress and proof of what's good for in times of iraq critics the embodiment of the climate republic's ideological backwardness and a vivid example of the building which are in a diplomatic bargaining chip for years the station has finally come closer to fulfilling its practical purpose but the first batch of nuclear fuel just loaded into the reactor the station is expected to start producing electricity by the end of this year but iran's top nuclear fishel says it's all ready for celebration we are grateful to the people for russia to the government of pressure to our great friends in russia were. instrumental in making us witnessing today. ha

under un sanctions aimed at pressuring to iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program artie's oksana boyko has the story of the fifteen fifteen year long planned construction. it's been a routine for more than a decade hundreds of russian constructors streaming to their workplace three shifts a day six days a week building iran's first nuclear power station it's been a long wait launched by germans in the nineteen seventies the construction was halted after the revolution when russians to call for the task was to feed the new reactor into the ready existing building business through its. direct instructors always more difficult than to build from scratch you had to fusion equipment that normally requires a much larger space this is one of the reasons why do launch of the station has been postponed so many times for the rain it meant the delay in their nuclear dream for local russians more time away from home. let me the works in the local kindergarten welfare has been disputing finishing touches to the station she's explaining to her peoples what it's all about. why we need nuclear power s