The head of Iran’s atomic energy agency will travel to Russia Tuesday to sign a construction deal for two nuclear power plants on Iran’s southern Gulf shores, local media reported.
“I am going to Moscow to sign an agreement for the construction of new nuclear power plants,” Salehi was quoted as saying on Sunday by Iran’s official IRNA news agency. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi, also quoted by IRNA, said Russia and Iran are set to “finalize and sign the agreement for the construction of two nuclear plants.”
Under a provisional agreement, Russia will build two 1,000-megawatt plants next to Iran’s sole existing plant in the southern Gulf port city of Bushehr.
