The Associated Press, 25 August 2008 () — Iran’s official news agency says the country has begun designing its second light-water nuclear power plant, a 360-megawatt facility in the southwest.
Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, says experts have chosen the site where the light-water nuclear reactor will be built using local technology.
Iran is still finishing building its first nuclear power plant, a 1,000-megawatt reactor in the southern city of Bushehr being constructed with Russian help. It is to begin operations early next year.