Iran and the Russian state corporation Rosatom have signed a $25 billion agreement to build four nuclear power units with a total capacity of 5 gigawatts in southeastern Iran.
This is reported by The Moscow Times, citing the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization.
Earlier, Rosatom and Iran announced that they had signed a memorandum of cooperation in the construction of small-capacity nuclear power plants in Iran.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran reported that an agreement was also signed between Rosatom Energy Projects and the Iranian company Hormuz Atomic Power Plant Company on the construction of four third-generation nuclear units of a new nuclear power plant in Hormozgan province with a capacity of 1,255 megawatts.
Site selection has now been completed, engineering and environmental studies have been conducted, and some site preparation work has been completed .
Russia built the first unit of Iran’s only nuclear power plant, the Bushehr NPP, with a capacity of 1 gigawatt. It was handed over to the Iranian side in 2013, although the unit was connected to the grid in 2011. Rosatom also signed a contract to build two more units of the Bushehr NPP and has begun construction of the second.
In total, the agreement between the countries provides for the possibility of building 8 nuclear units, four of which are in Bushehr.
It was previously reported that the Russian state corporation Rosatom explained the delays in payments to the builders of the Turkish Akkuyu nuclear power plant, where Russians own 49% of the shares, as the consequences of “foreign policy factors.”
It later became known that the EU Court annulled the European Commission’s decision approving state aid from the Hungarian government for the implementation of a joint project with Rosatom to build the Paks-2 nuclear power plant.
Author: Halyna Yalivets Джерело: https://censor.net/n3576371
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Another international agreement – this one with china.
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/how-russia-helping-china-prepare-seize-taiwan
Russia has agreed to equip and train the PLA to air-drop armoured vehicles and special reconnaissance capabilities.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has directed the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to be ready to militarily seize Taiwan by 2027. A large-scale amphibious operation is highly risky, with the sites suitable for landing craft to deliver troops and equipment ashore constrained by the gradient and load bearing capacity of the beaches. Seizing airfields could allow troops to flow in by air, but as Russia discovered during its invasion of Ukraine, runways can be quickly denied. The PLA is therefore eager to identify ways of diversifying both the methods and locations at which it can move units onto Taiwan.
The approximately 800 pages of contracts and collateral materials appear genuine and details from within the documents have been independently verified. However, there is also the possibility that parts of the documents have been altered or omitted.
The capacity to airdrop armour vehicles on golf courses, or other areas of open and firm ground near Taiwan’s ports and airfields, would allow air assault troops to significantly increase their combat power and threaten seizure of these facilities to clear a path for the landing of follow-on forces.
Thanks for sharing Slimpan.