国际英语新闻：Iran's first nuclear power plant to join national grid in April

TEHRAN, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the first of its kind in the country, is to join the national power grid in early April, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi, said Friday.

Salehi had earlier said that the plant could join the national power grid sometime around mid-February.

But he said Friday that having a safe facility is more important than rushing to the production stage, local satellite channel Press TV reported.

He rejected reports that computer systems in Bushehr had been infected by a virus called Stuxnet, saying the computer worm cannot go beyond personal computers and enter the facility's main systems.

Commenting on some media reports that the U.S. and Israel were behind a cyber attack on Iranian computer installations, Salehi warned against the consequences of such attacks.

"If anything happens to a nuclear plant its repercussions will not be confined to one border and they should know better that such moves could affect them, too," he warned.

The completion of the Bushehr nuclear power plant was first scheduled for 1999. But it was postponed several times amid mounting technological and financial challenges and pressure from the United States.