Iran has begun building a 300-megawatt nuclear power plant in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, which is expected to cost about $2 billion, the country’s atomic energy agency said on Saturday.
Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said the new power plant is being built in the Darkhovin district of Khuzestan using a pressurized water reactor fueled with 4 percent uranium.
Eslami said the nuclear reactor will be built by Iranian companies over the course of eight years.
“The construction of this power is an old program that was stopped for years due to the bad faith of foreigners who abandoned the work, and today the first part of its operation, including the preparation of the land for the construction of the site and the main building of the power plant, began,” he told reporters….