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 would be built to Russian designs, though the original reactor buildings exterior appearance would remain essentially the same. There were two reactor buildings at Bushehr, one was in an advanced stage of completion, while the other had remained dormant for some time and was not currently scheduled to be completed.
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 that supported loading and unloading of foreign materials needed for construction and reactor operation.
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