AtomStroyExport (ASE), a subsidiary of the Russian company Rosatom, has started to build the Bushehr nuclear power plant Phase II that includes Bushehr unit 2 and Bushehr unit 3.
The Bushehr II project, located in southern province of Bushehr 1,200 km south of Iran's capital city Tehran, aside the sole operating nuclear power plant (915 MW Bushehr-1 connected to the grid in September 2011 and in commercial operation since September 2013), will consist of 2 VVER-1000 reactors with a total capacity of 2,100 MW. The US$10bn project is expected to be commissioned between October 2024 (Bushehr-2) and April 2026 (Bushehr-3), with commercial operation starting respectively in August 2025 and February 2027.
Construction of the third phase of the Bushehr project could start in 2018. In November 2014, Rosatom and Nuclear Power Production and Development Company of Iran (NPPDCI) signed an EPC turnkey contract for construction of Bushehr-2 and Bushehr-3. One year later, in November 2015, Russia and Iran signed an agreement to build up to eight new reactors in Iran.
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