Iran to build two new nuclear plants
[ News Report]  [2007-04-17 00:19:36]
[Source: Aljazeera 15 April 07]

(AFP Photo) Iranian director of production of nuclear energy, Ahmad Fayaz Bakhsh
 Iran said on Sunday that it will issue tenders in the next few days for two new nuclear power stations, despite growing international pressure over its atomic program.
“Iran is launching two tenders for the construction of two nuclear power stations of between 1,000 and 1,600 megawatts capacity in Bushehr," the director of production of nuclear energy, Ahmad Fayaz Bakhsh, told reporters.

 

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