08/25/08 06:54 AM
IRAN
Design work reported on 2nd N-power plant
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s official news agency said the country has begun designing its second light-water nuclear power plant, a 360-megawatt facility in the southwest.
Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said experts have chosen the site where the reactor will be built using local technology.
Iran, with Russian help, is still finishing construction of its first nuclear plant, a 1,000- megawatt reactor in the southern city of Bushehr. It is to begin operations early next year.
Iran has said for years that it was planning to build a 360- megawatt nuclear plant in Darkhovin, in the southwestern Khuzestan province.
