TEHRAN -- Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says 17,000 megawatts of nuclear power will join the country’s national grid in the next 20 years.
Iran’s sole nuclear power plant is on the country’s southwest coast in Bushehr. Its 1,000-megawatt reactor was built by Russia and officially handed over in September 2013 after years of delay. AEOI head Muhammad Eslami said in the southwestern Iranian city of Abadan that the operation the Bushehr nuclear power plant has saved 80 million barrels of oil so far.