Iran starts second atomic power plant: report - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

Iran starts second atomic power plant: report
Fri Feb 8, 2008 7:44am EST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran has started building a second
atomic power plant in an oil-rich region near the border
with Iraq, Iran's Ambassador to Russia was quoted as
saying on Friday by Itar-Tass news agency.

Gholamreza Ansari said construction had started at
Darkhovin in south-western Khuzestan province. Iran has
said it would construct a 360 megawatt plant at the site.

"Now we need to think about the fuel for it," Tass quoted
him as saying at a news briefing in Moscow. A spokesman
for the Iranian embassy confirmed the comment.

Iran has been building its first nuclear power plant near
the southern city of Bushehr, where Tehran says test
operations could start later this year. Final deliveries
of nuclear fuel by Russia arrived at the plant last month.

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