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Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:19
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TEHRAN (XFN-ASIA) - Iran on Sunday asked for bids to build two new nuclear power stations alongside a still unfinished facility in the south of the country.'Iran is launching two tenders for the construction of two nuclear power stations of between 1,000 and 1,600 megawatts capacity in Bushehr,' the director of production of nuclear energy, Ahmad Fayaz Bakhsh, told reporters.The southern city of Bushehr is the location of Iran's first nuclear power plant, which is being built by a Russian contractor. However its completion, due for this year, has been held up by a string of delays.Fayaz Bakhsh said Iran's atomic energy agency would hand over the tender offer documents Sunday for publication in the press in the next days. The tender literature put the closing date for bids at Aug 8.'There are already contacts with Russian and European firms. It is expected that construction would take between nine and 11 years,' he said.The cost of the new power plants, which will be built alongside the existing facility in Bushehr, will be between 1.4-1.7 bln usd, he said.afp
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