Construction of nuclear power plants necessary for Iran, official says

"Behrouz Kamalvandi", the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said: "European countries have reached the fact that there is no escape from building nuclear power plants."

Kamalvandi added: "Establishment of iodine 131 radiopharmaceutical capsule production line that is used in the treatment of various cancers, use of nuclear radiation for sterilization, seed modification and seed resistance against dehydration, use of gamma radiation for processing bee venom for using Medical development as well as the development of heavy water-related products are among the advances made in this area."
Kamalvandi also mentioned the construction of a 360-megawatt Iranian nuclear power plant in Darkhovein, which is planned to produce 10,000 megawatts of nuclear power in order to fulfill its legal obligation and is on the agenda of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, also said that the construction of the 360-megawatt Darkhovein power plant is on the agenda so that Iran can use it along with research reactors.
Darkhovein nuclear power plant, the second largest nuclear facility in the country, is a heavy water reactor and will be completed in the city of Darkhovein in Khuzestan province.