Tehran, YJC. Russian nuclear official has said Iran and Russia have signed an agreement to provide services to Bushehr nuclear power plant.
CEO of Russia’s Rosenergoatom Evgeny Romanov in interview
with Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today) stated that the company has signed a 5-year
cooperation agreement with Iran.
The 2 sides have agreed that Rosenergoatom, one of the companies
affiliated to Rosatom, will participate in new power plants to be built in
Bushehr.
Bushehr power plant has a 1,000 MW nuclear reactor which
started generating electricity last year.
Iran's Atomic Energy Organization and the Russian Company
Rosatom signed an agreement in 2014 for building the 2nd and 3rd units of the
Bushehr Power Plant.
Iran has stressed its right to build more power plants in
order to be able to use the clean energy to feed its national electricity grid.
However, the country’s activities are hampered by pressure
from Western countries with the alibi that Iran’s nuclear activities serve
noon-peaceful purposes, something Iran denies.