The start-up of the first reactor at Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant will be "irreversible" by February next year, a senior Russian nuclear official was quoted by ITAR-Tass news agency as saying Monday.
"Between December 2008 and February 2009 various technical measures will be carried out...that will make the physical start-up process of the first Bushehr reactor irreversible," the report quoted the head of the Russian company working on the facility, Atomstroyexport, as saying.