Iran invites new reactor bids
Iran has said it will seek bids for two new nuclear power plants and will partly run them on home-produced fuel, despite Western criticism of its nuclear programme.
Ahmad Fayazbakhsh, of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, said they would be built at Bushehr, the southwestern city where a Russian contractor is building Iran’s first atomic plant.
Fayazbakhsh said the power plants would each have capacity for 1,000 to 1,600 megawatts. …
"There are already contacts with Russian and European firms. It is expected that construction would take between nine and 11 years," Fayazbakhsh said.
The cost of the new power plants, which will be built alongside the existing facility in Bushehr, will be between $1.4 and $1.7bn, he said.
“Because we have the capability to produce nuclear fuel inside the country, in the long term, part of the fuel for the reactors will be provided by Iran and the rest will be imported,” he told a news conference. …
I guess Iran doesn’t look all intimidated by false American threats. Well who would, from a country that’s lost over an hundered tanks in Iraq to a non-professional army!