Iran starts building a new nuclear power plant

Iran began building a new nuclear power plant in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, the body in charge of atomic energy in the Islamic Republic announced this Saturday.

Mohamad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, announced in a statement on television the start of construction of the Karun plant, with a capacity of 300 megawatts and located near the town of Darkhovin, in the southwest of Iran. the Khuzestan region.

Its construction will cost between 1,500 and 2,000 million dollars, he specified.

“It will be the first (Iranian) plant to be designed by a French company,” said Eslami, although the French group later withdrew from the project due to sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Following an international agreement in 2015, Iran agreed to suspend operation of its underground Fordo nuclear power plant and limit uranium enrichment to 3.67%, in exchange for a lifting of Western sanctions.

In 2018, however, the then US president, Donald Trump, decided to withdraw his country from that agreement and reinstate the sanctions.

Since then, the Iranian authorities have resumed operation of the Fordo plant and in November announced that they had produced 60% enriched uranium.

Tehran has always denied that it intends to develop a nuclear bomb, despite accusations by Israel and the United States.

Source: Elcomercio

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