BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 22. Cooperation and
relations between Iran and Russia in the nuclear sphere are at the
highest level, Iran's Vice President and Chairman of the Atomic
Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, said, Trend reports.
He made the remark at an event dedicated to the presentation of
new achievements of Iran's National Center for Laser Science and
Technology.
According to him, as part of this cooperation, power units 2 and
3 of the Bushehr NPP are currently under construction. Recently,
the third reactor unit of the second power unit was installed. The
construction of half of the reactor building has been
completed.
Eslami noted that the Iranian company's potential is also being
used in the construction of power units at the Bushehr NPP.
“A memorandum on the construction of small nuclear power plants
will be signed in the next 1-2 months,” he noted.
The first power unit of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant was
commissioned in 2011. In 2013, control of the power unit was
transferred from the Russian nuclear company to the Iranian
company. Since 2013, this power unit has been producing a maximum
of 1,000 megawatt-hours of electricity. Over the past 10 years, the
Bushehr nuclear power plant has produced more than 65 billion
kilowatt-hours of electricity.
Meanwhile, the construction of the second and third power units
of the Bushehr NPP began in 2017 on an area of 50 hectares. Once
commissioned, each of these power units will have a production
capacity of 1,057 megawatts of electricity. The commissioning of
these two power units will save 10 million barrels of oil or 1.6
billion cubic meters of gas per year and prevent the emission of 7
million tons of polluting gases into the environment.
Electricity production at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant from
2013 through March 20, 2025, amounted to 72.4 million
kilowatt-hours.
