VOL. XXXIV

NO. 23

11-MARCH-1991

Iran

Kraftwerke Union Seeks Permission to Finish Bushehr Nuclear Plant

The German company Kraftwerke Union has formally asked the German Governmentfor permission to finish the nuclear power plant it was commissioned to build inIran prior to the Islamic revolution in 1979. A spokesman for Kraftwerke Union(a subsidiary of Siemens) said last month that the company unilaterally canceleda contract to build two 13,000 MW reactors at Bushehr in 1979 following adefault on...