Construction of nuclear plant will take seven years, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization announced
Iran has started construction of a new nuclear plant in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, announced today Iranian Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA).
The construction site, the start of which was announced on state television by the head of this organization, Mohammad Eslami, is expected to last seven years.
The 300-megawatt plant, being built in the Darhovin region, will cost between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, Eslami added.
Iran also has a 1,000 megawatt nuclear power plant at Bushehr, in the southern tip of the country.
Initially, the factory at Darkovin “It was going to be built by a French company,” which backtracked on its “commitments” after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, according to the head of the atomic energy agency.
“Then other countries avoided working with the Islamic Republic of Iran because of the sanctions,” Eslami continued.
As part of a historic deal reached in 2015, Iran had agreed to freeze its uranium enrichment activities at the Fordow underground plant, located 180 kilometers south of Tehran.
THE Tehran had pledged to limit the enrichment limit to 3.67% under this agreement signed by Iran, on the one hand, and the United States, China, France, Britain, Russia and Germany, on the other.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the deal is called, offered Iran relief from international sanctions in exchange for guarantees that Tehran would not acquire nuclear weapons, a goal the Islamic Republic has always denied it pursues.
However, following the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA in 2018 under President Donald Trump, and the reimposition of US sanctions that are stifling its economy, Tehran has gradually disengaged from its obligations.
Iran therefore began in January 2021 the process of producing 20% enriched uranium at the Fordow plant.
Then, the April 2021announced that it had begun producing 60% enriched uranium at its Natanz plant, approaching the 90% required to produce an atomic bomb.
Last month, Tehran announced it had started production of 60% enriched uranium at Fordow, in a fresh breach of its pledges.
Negotiations to revive the 2015 accord began in April 2021, but have stalled in recent months as tensions rose between Iran and the major powers that are party to the deal.
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