Russia and Iran are about to launch full-scale of operations on the construction of the second and third units of the Beshehr Nuclear Power Plant, Rosatom�s press service announced Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) � Russia and Iran in�the next few weeks plan to�solve the tasks needed for�the full-scale of�operations on�the construction of�the second and third units of�the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, Rosatom�s press service announced Friday.
�Issues of�bilateral cooperation were the focus of�consultations in�regard to�the Bushehr NPP construction. In particular, the fact of�giving the Iranian management organs a license on�the exploitation of�energy unit number 1. The participants discussed in�detail the tasks that need to�be solved in�the next few weeks to�bring units 2 and 3 into�full-scale operation,� the press service said in�a statement.


Bushehr-1� was launched in�September 2011 and reached its maximum power generation capacity in�August 2012.

In September 2013, Iran officially took over�from Russia the first unit of�its first 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plants for�two years and in�November 2014 the two countries signed an agreement whereby Russia was commissioned to�build another four units total.

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