Iran's first indigenous nuclear power plant to be built soon
Regional-Iran, Economics, 3/18/2006

Iran's minister of Energy Parviz Fattah said yesterday that Iran will soon start construction of its first indigenous nuclear power plant.

The minister made the remarks while inaugurating a local power supply station in the village of Dehsalm near the town of Nahbandan in the eastern province of South Khorasan.

He noted that the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was resisting pressures from the West, the US in particular, against right to use peaceful nuclear energy 'for the sake of people'.

Therefore, added the minister, "Iranians further support for the government will give more strength to its resistance." The minister had earlier told reporters that given Iran's depletable hydrocarbon resources, the country would need to turn to nuclear energy for power generating as its power consumption would be doubled during next decade.

He had also said that construction operation for Iran's first indigenous nuclear power plant would start in three to six months.

Meantime, The head of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) said here Saturday that given Iran's high consumption of energy, the country could become an importer of energy in not very distant future.

Touring the Center for Energy Management in the northern city of Tabriz, Hiroyuki Okuyo told reporters that Japan consumes about one percent of energy in producing the same product compared to Iran.

Also, the price of energy in Japan is 10-fold that of Iran and Iranian public due to the affordable energy sources are not sensitive to consumption of energy, he stated.

"The center plans to put some energy saving program into effect in Iran," the Japanese official added.

The goal is to reduce energy consumption by 10 percent in the Iranian industry in the next two years, he said.

He added that Iran is the fourth Asian country after China, Turkey and Thailand in which JICA has implemented its energy saving program.

He said the center promotes standard energy models for saving the ever increasing energy consumption throughout the world.

"Japan has advanced technology in saving energy and is the only country that the consumption and production of energy is equal." "The developing nations do not have the same pattern of energy use," he said.

Energy savings is not only a technological issue, but it also depends on the society's cultural norms, the Japanese official underlined. A major problem facing the company is the rising energy use especially gasoline consumption in the country.

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