Sputnik - Construction and installation works on the future Bushehr-2 Nuclear Power Plant in Iran began on Tuesday, press service of the Rosatom�s ASE company said on Wednesday.





MOSCOW (Sputnik)�� Iran�s deal with�Russia on�the first stage of�the Bushehr project, Bushehr 1, dates back to�1992. The first reactor was connected to�the national electric grid in�2011 and reached full capacity in�the following�year.
"On March 14, 2017, the works at�the building site of�the Bushehr-2 NPP in�the Islamic Republic of�Iran started," the press release said.


The Bushehr 2 construction deal, which will initiate the construction and installation of�a second and third reactor at�the southern Iran site, was signed by�Russia and Iran in�November 2014. The deal also included the option of�building six more reactors in�the future.


The Bushehr NPP 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 and popular in�its series, with�34 such reactors operating all over�the world.

In December 2016, Tehran transferred to�Russia the first tranche to�finance the building of�the second stage of�the Bushehr NPP.