Russian Rosatom's JSC NIAEP company finishes the preparations for the construction of the second and third units of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, the company's president, Valery Limarenko, said Monday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) An agreement toexpand civilian nuclear energy cooperation and construct a total ofeight additional nuclear reactors atBushehr was signed betweenRussia and Iran onNovember 11, 2014.
"We are conducting the final works inIran beforethe launch ofthe construction ofthe second and third units ofthe Bushehr nuclear power plant," Limarenko told journalists duringthe Atomexpo 2016.
In 2014, Iran and Russia agreed onbuilding two new nuclear reactors onthe site ofBushehr, starting fall 2015.
By Sputnik