Nuclear Sites
Bushehr Nuclear power plant
Bushehr Nuclear power plant
As of the summer of 2008, the Bushehr nuclear power reactor was scheduled to go critical in late 2008 or early 2009. The reactor, supplied by Russia, is a VVER-1000 design, with an electrical output of approximately 1000 megawatts-electric (MWe).
Russia agreed to supply all the enriched uranium fuel for Bushehr. In February 2005, it also finalized an agreement that will require Iran to return all spent fuel from Bushehr to Russia, although the irradiated fuel will initially be stored in Iran for several years, pending sufficient radioactive decay to allow the fuel’s safe transport.
The 82 tons of fuel that will eventually comprise the reactor’s first core were shipped to Iran in a series of shipments between mid-December 2007 and January 2008. The fuel is under IAEA safeguards in Iran.
See also Darkhovin, where Iran reportedly plans to build a second power reactor.
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Date: Sep 15, 2008
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