Jahangiri: Iranian experts to contribute more in building new Bushehr power plants

He made the remarks while touring the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant on Saturday.

He is on a one-day trip to the province to inaugurate the construction operation of the second and third phases of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.

During a special ceremony in this Persian Gulf province, Jahangiri inaugurated the construction project of the two additional phases of the power plant.

The new units at Bushehr power plant will be constructed based on the Generation III-plus nuclear plant models certified by the European Utility Requirements Organization.

The agreement to expand civilian nuclear energy cooperation and construct a total of eight additional nuclear reactors at Bushehr was signed between Russia and Iran on November 11, 2014.

The agreement for the construction of the Bushehr-1 nuclear power plant was finalized in 1995, but the project was delayed several times due to a number of technical and financial issues.

Bushehr-1 was launched in September 2011 and reached its maximum power generation capacity in August 2012.

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