By Ugur Serhan Ozcan
MOSCOW
Russia will build two new nuclear power plants in Iran according to an agreement signed in Moscow, Iran's official news agency, IRNA, reported on Tuesday.
Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Agency of Iran, and Sergey Kirienko, head of Rosatom -- Russia's national nuclear corporation -- signed a series of agreements in Moscow on nuclear partnership between the two countries.
According to the agreement, the plants will be built in Bushehr, Iran.
Salehi emphasized that the agreement, which included increasing nuclear partnership between the two countries, was a milestone in their bilateral relations.
Five new nuclear power plants will be built in Bushehr and the agreements of two have already been finalized in Tuesday's agreement, Salehi added.
As part of the agreement, eight pressurized water reactors -- including four in Bushehr -- will be constructed and fuel will be supplied by Russia, Ria Novosti, Russia's official news agency, reported.
The agreements will be implemented under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Russia's Rosatom and Iran's Atomic Energy Agency reached an initial settlement for building at least two new nuclear power plants last March.
Iran's first nuclear power plant was built in Bushehr by Russia.
Russia was due to hand over the Bushehr nuclear plant to Iran in 1999, according the agreement signed in 1995.
However, construction of the plant was delayed due to economic reasons.
The plant, which started to work in full capacity in 2012, was finally handed over to Iran previous year.
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