"Two or three months later, the electricity generated by the plant
will be connected to the grid," IAEO director Ali Akbar Salehi said.
Salehi did not elaborate. Over the last month, Iranian officials first
said
the startup of Bushehr would take place on Sept. 2, and then later cited the
end
of the month, Middle East Newsline reported.
Officials have acknowledged that Bushehr was struck by the computer worm
Stuxnet. They said 30,000 computers, including those in Bushehr, were
affected by the virus, first reported in Europe.
"Studies show that few personal computers of Bushehr nuclear power plant
workers are infected with the virus," Bushehr project manager Mahmoud Jafari
said on Sept. 26.
But Jafari told Iran's official news agency, Irna, that Stuxnet has not
damaged Bushehr. He said the plant was operating as planned.