Tehran, June 11, IRNA Amount of annual production of uranium in Arak Heavy Water Reactor which used to be around 9 to 10 kilograms annually will be decreased to less than one kilogram, head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said Wednesday.We are currently busy redesigning that reactor to arrange for that alteration, said Ali Akbar Salehi in response to a question posed by IRNA Wednesday night on the sidelines of a commemoration ceremony of a scientific institutes top professors.
Referring to the terms of the Geneva Agreement, alias the Joint Plan of Action (JPA), he said that in accordance with the JPA, Irans enrichment programs are defined proportionately with the countrys demands.
The AEOI chief meanwhile said that within the next seven years the Bushehr Nuclear Plant will produce sufficient electrical energy for Irans total internal consumption, in response to an IRNA question on the final production capacity of that reactor.
Also on the long term and the short term plans of the country for construction of more nuclear plants and the related negotiations with the Russians on the matter, Salehi said that in the long run eight new nuclear plants will be constructed in various parts of the country.
In short run though, we hope to construct and put to use two new nuclear reactors in Bushehr, according to the governments related ratifications, he said.
Russia plans to sign a contract with Iran this year to build two more nuclear reactors at its Bushehr power plant as part of a broader deal for up to eight reactors in the Islamic state, a source close to the negotiations told Reuters on May 22.
Russia, one of the six powers negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program has built Iran?s only operating nuclear power reactor, at Bushehr.
?Russia and Iran may sign an intergovernmental agreement this year on building from four to eight nuclear reactors, and, under the deal, the contract for the construction of the first two reactors as additions to Bushehr,? the source said.
Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said earlier it was in talks with Iran on the potential construction of more reactors there but revealed no details.
Moscow has sharply criticized additional measures imposed by the United States and European Union, calling them a hindrance to diplomacy in search of a permanent settlement with Tehran.
By IRNA
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