[caption id="attachment_74642" align="alignright" width="232"] Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant[/caption]
Russia could sign an agreement this year to build eight new reactors for nuclear power plants in Iran, state-run Russian news agency RIA reported on Thursday, citing a source it did not identify.
Russia built Irans only operating nuclear power reactor, at the Bushehr plant.
Longstanding Western fears that the Bushehr project could help Iran develop nuclear weapons something it denies it is seeking to do recede after Iran promised to send the spent fuel from the plant back to Russia.