Start-up of Iran's Bushehr plant under way: report

BUSHEHR Iran (Reuters) - The start-up of the Russian-built reactor at Iran's first nuclear power plant got under way on Saturday, Russia's state-run RIA news agency cited Russian nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko as saying.

Technicians at the plant in Bushehr were to begin moving uranium-packed fuel rods to the reactor from a storage area, setting its launch in motion more than two decades after construction began.