Iran building new unit at Bushehr power plant
By Trend
Iran has launched construction of a new unit at Busheher nuclear
power plant with the help of Russia.
Iranian First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri and Sergey Kiriyenko,
the head of Rosatom (Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation) have
attended the ceremony for launching the construction of the second
unit of Bushehr nuclear power plant, IRNA news agency reported.
The construction of the second unit is projected to be completed
within nine years. Iran also has in plans to build a third unit
within the next 18 months.
Construction of the two units is expected to cost around $10
billion and the two new units will be capable of producing 1,057
megawatts of electricity.
Russia’s Rosatom, the Nuclear Power Production and Development
Company of Iran (NPPD) and Atomstroyexport JSC (ASE JSC) signed two
contracts last November for construction of power units of Bushehr
nuclear power plant on a turnkey basis.
Russia built Iran’s first nuclear power plant and commenced it in
2011 with 1,000 MW of power generation capacity.
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