The long-awaited opening of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant was announced to be launched by the Russian Atomic Agency. A spokesman for the agency today the Nuclear Power Plant will come online on August 21st, 2010 and from that moment on it can be called operational. ‘The fuel will be charged in the reactor on August 21. From this moment, Bushehr will be considered a nuclear installation,’ Russia’s Atomic Agency Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov said. ‘This can be considered as the physical launch,’ he added. Pictured: Bushehr NPP ; Russian and Iranian workers and engineers at the construction of Nuclear Power Plant in Bushehr.