Mohammad Islami, head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview with the Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency that the facilities being built in the city of Sirik will provide a total of five thousand megawatts of energy. He added that a goal has been set to produce 20,000 megawatts of electricity by 2041.
It will take nine years to build the new nuclear power plants.
Project manager Nasser Sariflou said that the nuclear power plants will use 35 tons of nuclear fuel every year.
The Islamic Republic currently has a nuclear power plant that has been operating since 2011 and produces one thousand megawatts of electricity. Another 300-megawatt power plant is under construction in the oil-rich western province of Khuzestan.
The Iranian nuclear program causes ongoing friction between Tehran and Western powers. The International Atomic Energy Agency announced at the end of last year that Iran had increased its production of highly enriched uranium, which experts say will not serve peaceful purposes – although Tehran claims exactly that.
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