BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 1. Iran has official started building a new nuclear power plant (NPP) in its southern province of Hormozgan on February 1, 2024, Trend reports.
The project was inaugurated by President Ebrahim Raisi, Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami, and other officials, as AEOI reported.
According to the report, the new NPP called ‘Iran Hormoz’ is located in Sirik County of Hormozgan. The NPP will have four reactors with a total output of around 5,000 megawatts.
It is part of Iran’s ambition to construct nuclear power plants with a combined output of 20,000 megawatts, which was decided last year (2023). To achieve this goal, several companies have been established in Iran, which are working on nuclear power plant projects in five provinces.
The only nuclear power plant that is currently operating in Iran is the first unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which was built by Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom (ROSATOM) and became operational in 2011. ROSATOM handed over the operation of the unit to an Iranian company in 2013. The unit has been generating 1,000 megawatt-hours of electricity per year since then.
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