Tag: Nuclear Power

Tehran : Iran began on Saturday the construction of a new nuclear power plant in its southwestern province of Khuzestan. Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and some local officials witnessed the start of construction of the 300-megawatt Karoon nuclear power plant, which will install a pressurised light water reactor that uses 4-per cent enriched uranium oxide as the fuel, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a Nour news agency report. Iran has started building nuclear power plants at “a high speed”, Eslami said, adding the Karoon...