VOL. XL

No. 41

13-October-1997

IRAN

Iran Plans More Nuclear Power Plants

The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mr. Gholamreza Aghazadeh (formerlyIran's Minister of Oil), said in Vienna on 3 October during a meeting of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran intends to build enough nuclear power plants to meet20% of the country's energy needs. Mr. Aghazadeh said that Tehran had decided to build asecond 1,000-megawatt unit at the Bushehr nuclear power complex as soon as...