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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 02:03 25/12/2007 Iran to issue tenders for 19 nuclear power plants, lawmaker claims By The Associated Press TEHRAN - Iran plans to build 19 more nuclear power plants and will soon issue bids for their construction, 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. Advertisement Jalali, a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said the bids will be in line with parliamentary legislation that calls for production of 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear power plants in the future. Jalali, who made his comments on Sunday, gave no timeframe. 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 have called on the government to produce 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear energy by then. Bookmark to del.icio.us Aliyah from Iran A group of 40 new immigrants from Iran touched down in Israel on Tuesday. Race to White House Top Republican candidate Mike Huckabee supports dialogue with Iran.

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