First concrete will be poured for Bushehr-3 nuclear power plant in Iran next month as the country seeks to enter a new phase in its nuclear development, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, Mohammad Eslami, has said.

Eslami was quoted by state media as saying “we will witness the first concrete pouring at Phase 3 of Bushehr Power Plant in the month of May”. 

Iran operates one commercial nuclear plant, Bushehr-1, which began operation in 2013. Construction of a second, Bushehr-2, began in 2019.