Iran to make first advance payment for Bushehr 2 by year-end
Iran will send the first advance payment to Russia to finance the ongoing construction of the Bushehr 2 nuclear power plant by the end of 2016, Sputnik International quoted a site official with the Russian manufacturing corporation as saying Sept. 12.
Russian and Iranian nuclear officials signed a construction protocol at a ground-breaking ceremony marking the start of work on Bushehr 2 in the southwestern Iran.
“This protocol specifies the terms of the start of work, taking
into account the advance payments that Iran should make. The
advance payment will be made by the end of the year and it will be
paid in several tranches,” a site leader with Russia’s
Atomstroyexport foreign trade engineering firm, told reporters.
The Bushehr 2 project was rolled out by Russian nuclear experts in
Tehran in 2014.
Moscow and Tehran signed a deal to build the second and third
reactors at the site in November that year, with an option of
building six more in the future.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant will include two power units with a
Water-Water Energetic Reactor, VVER-1000, the initial version of
which was developed in Russia in the 1960s. Currently, this type of
reactor is the most widespread in its series with 34 such operating
reactors worldwide.
The cost of the Bushehr 2 project is estimated at $10 billion. Its
implementation is planned to take 10 years.
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