Disregarding Israel’s concerns and the present P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran, Russia is building two additional nuclear reactors for the Islamic Republic.
Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation announced on Monday that it will start building a second nuclear power plant in Iran’s southern province of Bushehr this year, Iran’s Fars News reports.
The agency provided no further details.
In March 2014, Rosatom and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) reached an agreement to build at least two new plants on the site of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.
In December, AEOI Deputy Chief and Spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi announced that Iran had begun construction.
“We have entered the executive phase of the construction of these two nuclear power plants based on the contract signed between Tehran and Moscow in March to construct the plants,” Kamalvandi stated.
Iran has said on various occasions that the Islamic Republic was ready to continue its mutual cooperation with Russia on “peaceful nuclear energy” projects.
Tehran signed the Bushehr contract with Russia in 1995, and the nuclear power plant reached its full capacity by August 2012.
According to Iran’s 20-year plan, the country should have the ability to produce 20,000 megawatts of nuclear-generated power by 2025.
By: United with Israel Staff
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