Tehran: Iran will build another nuclear power plant by the early 2014, the head of the country’s nuclear agency was cited as telling Iranian state TV on Sunday.
According to a report by the French news agency AFP, Fereidoun Abbasi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said that “Iran will build a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in Bushehr next year.”
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 programme.
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.
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