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Iran MP: Tehran to issue tenders for 19 nuclear power plants soon

By The Associated Press

Tags: Bushehr, Iran, nuclear

Iran will soon issue international tenders for the construction of 19 nuclear power plants in Iran, a lawmaker has said.

Contracts for the construction of 19 nuclear power plants, each with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, will be put into international tender in the near future, Kazem Jalali was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.

Jalali, a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said the tenders will be in line with parliamentary legislation that calls for production of 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear power plants in the future.

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Jalali, who made his comments on Sunday, gave no timeframe for the tenders. He is not a government official, and his comments do not necessarily represent the position of the Iranian government.

Iran currently does not have any operating electricity-producing nuclear power plants.

Russia is putting the finishing touches on a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in Bushehr, located in southern Iran. Iran received the first shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia last week, paving the way for the startup of its reactor in 2008.

The government has previously announced plans to built six more reactors like Bushehr to produce 7,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear energy by 2021, but some lawmakers say have called on the government to produce 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear energy by then.

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