Iran to build four to five new reactors
``Iran plans to build four to five new reactors with a capacity of 10-20 megawatts in different provinces within the next few years to produce radio-medicine and perform research,'' the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereydoun Abbasi, told ISNA on Monday.
Iran plans to build more nuclear power reactors in an earthquake-prone coastal area, Iranian media said on Wednesday, a day after a strong tremor struck the region close to its only existing such plant Tuesday's 6.3-magnitude quake hit 89 km south-east of the port of Bushehr, killing 37 people and injuring more than 900 as it flattened small villages.