Iran has announced a plan for the official inauguration of Bushehr’s nuclear power plant soon

An Iranian official has announced a plan for the official inauguration of Bushehr's nuclear power plant in southern Iran following the successful pilot launch of the plant.

“Bushehr nuclear plant will soon be officially inaugurated in the presence of Iran's president and either the president or the prime minister of Russia,” IRNA quoted Mohammad Hossein Jahanbakhsh, provincial governor of Bushehr, as saying on Thursday.

Earlier, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi had announced that Bushehr power plant had reached “the criticality stage, [meaning] it has been successfully launched.”

The top Iranian diplomat emphasized that the most modern technologies have been used in the construction of the plant and reiterated that it is amongst one of the safest nuclear power plants in the world.