20-03-10 Bushehr reactor to start this Summer

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Iran's new Russian-built nuclear power plant will begin operating this summer,even as the United States called for Russia to delay the startup.In apparent response,US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton – in Moscow on an official trip – urged Russia not to start up the plant until Teheran proves that it's not developing atomic weapons.But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov,at a joint news conference with Clinton,immediately stepped in to say that Russia would put the reactor online.