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Iran and Russia inaugurated a new phase of construction for a second reactor at Iran’s sole nuclear power plant in Bushehr on the Gulf coast.

The reactor is one of two officially under construction since 2017 at the Bushehr site.

 

Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant

• The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is Iran’s first commercial nuclear reactor.
• The nuclear power plant is a nuclear power plant in Iran 17 kilometres southeast of the city of Bushehr, between the fishing villages of Halileh and Bandargeh along the Persian Gulf.
• Construction of the plant was started in 1975 by German companies, but the work was stopped in 1979 after the Islamic revolution of Iran.
• The plant was officially opened in a ceremony in 2011. It is the first civilian nuclear power plant built in the Middle East. The site was repeatedly bombed during the Iran–Iraq war.
• In 1994, Tehran and Moscow signed an agreement to construct the VVER 1000MWe light-water reactor, and construction started the same year.

 

Iran

• Iran also called Persia, and officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Western Asia.
• Iran is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and to the west by Turkey and Iraq.
• Its central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, give it geostrategic importance.
• Iran is home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BCE.
• Iran is a founding member of the UN, ECO, NAM, OIC, and OPEC. It is a major regional and middle power, and its large reserves of fossil fuels—including the world’s largest natural gas supply and the fourth largest proven oil reserves – exert considerable influence in international energy security and the world economy.

 

Background

The landmark 2015 nuclear deal Iran signed with six major powers, including Russia, placed restrictions on the sort of nuclear reactor Tehran could develop and its production of nuclear fuel.

As part of the agreement, Moscow provides Tehran with the fuel it needs for its electricity-generating nuclear reactors.

 

Source: The Hindu

 

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