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Iran to build new nuclear power plant by early 2014
May 27, 2012 - 15:56 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant,
alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by
early 2014, state television said on Sunday, May 27, quoting the head
of the country's Atomic Energy Organization.
"Iran will build a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in Bushehr next
year," the television quoted Fereydoon Abbasi Davani as saying. He was
referring to the Iranian calendar year running from March 2013 to
March 2014, AFP reported.
The current Bushehr nuclear plant was started by German engineers in
the 1970s, before Iran's Islamic revolution, and was completed by
Russia, which continues to help keeping it running and provides fuel
for it.
In addition, Iran has a research reactor operating in Tehran that is
used to make medical isotopes for patients with cancer and other
illnesses.
A new Bushehr plant would boost electricity production in Iran, which
has some of the world's biggest reserves.
State television made its announcement in the wake of talks in Baghdad
on Wednesday and Thursday between Iran and world powers that focused
on Tehran's controversial nuclear program.
Those talks almost collapsed because of the very different positions
held by the two sides, but agreement was finally reached to hold
another round in Moscow on June 18-19.
Iran insists its nuclear program is exclusively peaceful and aimed at
producing energy and medical isotopes.
The world powers - the Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the
United States - suspect the program could include work towards
developing a nuclear weapons capability, and they have backed UN
Security Council resolutions calling on Iran to curb its activities.
May 27, 2012 - 15:56 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant,
alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by
early 2014, state television said on Sunday, May 27, quoting the head
of the country's Atomic Energy Organization.
"Iran will build a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in Bushehr next
year," the television quoted Fereydoon Abbasi Davani as saying. He was
referring to the Iranian calendar year running from March 2013 to
March 2014, AFP reported.
The current Bushehr nuclear plant was started by German engineers in
the 1970s, before Iran's Islamic revolution, and was completed by
Russia, which continues to help keeping it running and provides fuel
for it.
In addition, Iran has a research reactor operating in Tehran that is
used to make medical isotopes for patients with cancer and other
illnesses.
A new Bushehr plant would boost electricity production in Iran, which
has some of the world's biggest reserves.
State television made its announcement in the wake of talks in Baghdad
on Wednesday and Thursday between Iran and world powers that focused
on Tehran's controversial nuclear program.
Those talks almost collapsed because of the very different positions
held by the two sides, but agreement was finally reached to hold
another round in Moscow on June 18-19.
Iran insists its nuclear program is exclusively peaceful and aimed at
producing energy and medical isotopes.
The world powers - the Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the
United States - suspect the program could include work towards
developing a nuclear weapons capability, and they have backed UN
Security Council resolutions calling on Iran to curb its activities.