In early January, the first generating unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf started feeding electricity into the national grid. It is now operating at full capacity, The Voice of Russia said.

The announcement came from Iran’s nuclear energy agency.

The first contractor on the Bushehr project was Germany’s Siemens. After four years, however, it pulled out in connection with the events that followed Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

In 1995, Russian contractors took over the construction work on the Bushehr project.