Iran says its engineers trained in Russia are ready to begin work at the country's first nuclear power plant. Nuclear official Ahmad Fayyazbakhsh says about 700 Iranian engineers trained who spent the past four years in Russia are ready to «operate» the plant in the southern port of Bushehr. In a report Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency quotes Fayyazbakhsh as saying the plant would begin working later in the current Iranian calendar year, which ends in March 2009. Iran is still finishing building the 1,000-megawatt nuclear plant and Russia is helping with the construction. Tehran also plans to build a 360-megawatt nuclear power plant in Darkhovin, in the southwestern Khuzestan province.
