Bushehr - Reactor Construction Site
The Iranian Nuclear facility at Bushehr is the focus of a considerable amount of controversy in the United States. Located approximately 17 kilometers south of the city of Bushehr, the facility is being built under an agreement between the Russian and Iranian governments for $800-million. Although originally intended to be the location of a German-built reactor in the 1970s, the new reactor will be built to Russian designs, though the original reactor buildings exterior appearance will remain essentially the same. There are two reactor buildings at Bushehr, one is in an advanced stage of completion while the other has remained dormant for some time and is not currently scheduled to be completed.
The reactor complex occupies a 2.5 Square Kilometer site area, which includes assembly halls, a concrete channel for cooling water that runs from the reactors to the Gulf, and a the harbor which supports loading and unloading of foreign materials needed for construction and reactor operation.
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