Bushehr - Reactor Construction Site
The Iranian Nuclear facility at Bushehr was the focus of a considerable amount of controversy in the United States. Located approximately 17 kilometers south of the city of Bushehr, the facility was 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 was built to Russian designs, though the original reactor buildings exterior appearance remained essentially the same. There were two reactor buildings at Bushehr, one was in an advanced stage of completion as of the early 1990s, while the other has remained dormant for some time and was not scheduled to be completed as of 2002.
The reactor complex occupied a 2.5 Square Kilometer site area, which included assembly halls, a concrete channel for cooling water that runs from the reactors to the Gulf, and a the harbor which supported loading and unloading of foreign materials needed for construction and reactor operation.
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