On Saturday, a ceremony devoted to the start of the construction was held in the Bushehr province. For this goal, primary engineering documentation will be prepared, as well as technical part of the project and the construction base will be agreed.
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“When these two units become operational, 11 million barrels of oil will be saved per year and emission of 7 million tons of greenhouse gas will be avoided”, he said.
The Iran-Russia joint project will also see another nuclear power plant built, with construction set to start in 2018. The new project will result in two nuclear plants offering a total of more than 1,000 megawatts of power.
It insists its atomic programme is entirely for peaceful processes.
Russian Federation built the existing 1,000 megawatt reactor at Bushehr that came online in September 2011 and reached full capacity the following year.
Tehran and Moscow on the same day capped off relations with a decade-long cooperation to construct two new nuclear power plants on the coasts of the Persian Gulf more than one year after the landmark nuclear deal.
The Bushehr NPP will include two power units with a Water-Water Energetic Reactor, VVER-1000, the initial version of which was developed in Russian Federation in the 1960s. “We are opening a new page in the trend of our peaceful industrial nuclear activities”, Salehi added.
Iran’s nuclear chief went on to say that toward the Implementation Day of the JCPOA, Tehran transferred 70 tons of heavy water to Oman in order to better assure the USA of its commitments.
In 2015 in Vienna, Iran agreed a civilian nuclear programme with world powers in return for the lifting of global sanctions. It hopes to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear power in the next 15 years. Iran kept its nuclear jalopy running decades longer than expected by scrounging for spare parts and by finding ways around global sanctions.
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In addition to the new nuclear power capacity, desalinations facilities with a daily capacity of 200,000 cubic metres are to be built, lowering the cost of supplying clean water to the southern cities of the semi-arid country, Salehi added.
