Iran to Seek Bids for 19 Atomic Power Plants – MP

Iran will soon announce an international tender for building 19 nuclear power plants, an MP was quoted as saying, a week after Russia said it had begun fuel deliveries to the Islamic state’s first such facility.

Kazem Jalali, a spokesman for parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, said each power plant would have a capacity of 1,000 megawatt of electricity, the Iran News daily reported on Monday, without giving further details.
Iranian officials say domestically-produced fuel is needed for other power plants it wants to build as part of a planned network with a capacity for 20,000 MW by 2020.

Jalali, whose comments were initially carried by the official IRNA news agency on Sunday, suggested the tenders were in line with these plans. “The contract for building 19 power plants … will in the near future be put on an international tender,” IRNA quoted him as saying.

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