Azerbaijan, Baku -- The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Fereidoon Abbasi said that the output of Busher nuclear power plant reached to 700 MW, Fars News Agency reported."Today, Bushehr NPP works by its 75 percent capacity," he said.
The nuclear capacity at Bushehr power plant is planned to be increased up to 1000 MW, its final capacity.
The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant was officially launched on September 12 and started by generating electricity at 40 percent of its capacity. The 1,000-megawatt plant, located southeast of the city of Bushehr along the Persian Gulf, had been already connected to the country's national power grid with the power of 60 MW on September 3, 2011.
It reached the capacity of 190 MW on last September 27 , and a day later it improved its capacity to 300 MW. The plant gained 50 percent of its nominal power on October 7 as it reached the capacity of 420 MW.
Initial construction of the facility began in 1975 by German companies, but the work was stopped following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In 1995, Iran and Russia reached an agreement to complete the project. But power generation was delayed several times due to a number of technical and financial problems.