Iran begins construction of another nuclear reactor in Isfahan
“ The pouring of the concrete foundation of the reactor at the Isfahan (or Esfahan) site began today ,” said Mohammad Eslami, head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, the state news agency IRNA reported. A clear provocation towards the USA.
IRNA described the new 10-megawatt reactor as a “research reactor” and said it will have several applications, including testing of nuclear fuels and materials and the production of industrial radioisotopes and radiopharmaceuticals. The Isfahan nuclear research center already hosts three reactors. This reactor has nothing to do with the recent start of construction of a new nuclear power plant in the south of the country.
The country's nuclear program has been criticized internationally, with outside experts fearing the program has an ultimate goal of building nuclear weapons.
Iran, however, says it has no such intentions and that its nuclear program is for civilian use only.
Iran faces a series of US sanctions dating back to Donald Trump's 2018 withdrawal from an international agreement negotiated in 2015 that aimed to halt Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions.
Iran seeks the ability to rival major nuclear powers
In January, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Rafael Grossi said Iran was “limiting” cooperation with the agency and called the Iranian nuclear situation “frustrating.”
Mohammad Eslami, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said late Thursday that a new nuclear power plant complex is being built in Sirik that will have a combined daily production capacity of 5,000 megawatts.
“We must reach the production capacity of 20,000 megawatts of nuclear energy in the country by the year 2041,” Eslami said during a visit to the region with President Ebrahim Raisi.
The United States, France, China, Russia and South Korea are the only five countries in the world that currently have installed more than 20,000 megawatts of nuclear capacity.
Iran currently has one operational nuclear power plant, in Bushehr, built by Russia, which produces about 3,000 megawatts and which will be expanded. Then he began construction of a new power plant, with four reactors, in Sirik . So now the new research reactor in Isfahan. The country is experiencing a real nuclear frenzy.
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