Large-scale work is to begin in the fall of this year on equipping the second and third units of Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant, Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom head, Sergey Kirienko, said Monday.
"Work will begin in the fall of this year," Kirienko said during the plenary session of the Atomexpo-2015 forum.
The new units will have two reactors of the improved water-water (VVER) design. The reactors will produce 1,000 megawatts each, tripling Iran's nuclear power production capacity.
Iran has said it aims to produce 20,000 megawatts of electricity from nuclear power.
Iran's only nuclear power plant in Bushehr, which produces 1,000 megawatts, became officially operational and was connected to Iran’s national grid in September 2011.
In December 2013, President Rouhani said that the construction of the second nuclear plant in Bushehr will soon kick off and that there will be nuclear reactors in most parts of Bushehr province, which has a long coast on the Persian Gulf.