29 Mar 2024
Russias State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, will start work on Irans Bushehr-2 nuclear power plant by the end of this year after the construction site preparations are completed.

We hope that the Iranian side will identify seismic parameters atthe site so we could start work onseveral new blocks already beforethis year is out, a source at Rosatom said onThursday.

Russia has already built a power plant inBushehr. The agreement forthe construction ofthe Bushehr nuclear power plant was finalized in1995, butthe project was delayed several times due toa number oftechnical and financial issues.

Even withthe international sanctions now lifted and foreign investors coming in, Iran still prefers todeal withits trusted partner, Russia, Mahmoud Shoori, head ofthe Eurasia Program atthe Center forStrategic Research inTehran, told Radio Sputnik.

Mahmoud Shoori said that afterthe construction and launch ofthe first stage ofthe Bushehr plant, Iran realized that it needed atleast two more units and decided togive the job toRussias Rosatom.

Our longtime experience ofproductive cooperation withRussia and the technological potential Russia demonstrated duringthe construction ofBushehr-1 convinced us that we had made the right choice. Mahmoud Shoori said.

Russia has a clear edge overall other potential contractors and we are certain that Russia is taking this job very seriously and is a partner we can trust, Mahmoud Shoori emphasized.

Bushehr-1 was launched inSeptember 2011 and reached its maximum power generation capacity inAugust 2012.

In September 2013, Iran officially took overfrom Russia the first unit ofits first 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plants fortwo years and inNovember 2014 the two countries signed an agreement whereby Russia was commissioned tobuild another four units total.

By Sputnik News
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