TEHRAN - The Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Alaedin Borujerdi said here on Monday that a determination on the part of the government and Majlis to push ahead for building more power plants shows that Tehran is pursuing nuclear technology with the sole purpose of producing nuclear fuel to run power plants.

Iran is determined to produce 20,000 MW of electricity by 2020 by constructing 20 nuclear reactors. Currently, Iran is developing a indigenously -engineered nuclear reactor in Darkhovin with a capacity of 360 MW.
Darkhovin is a city in the southern province of Khuzestan, north of Bushehr, which is better known for its oil fields.
In an interview with the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Borujerdi said the Majlis security committee has held its third meeting with officials of the Atomic Energy Organization on the construction of 360-megawatt power plant.
There has been relatively good progress in the process of building the power plant which is still at the planning stage, Borujerdi stated.
Designing the Darkhovin plant started two years ago and it will join the power grid in 2016, Borujerdi predicted.
""We are building a 360-megawatt indigenous power plant in Darkhovin,"" the director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Gholamreza Aqazadeh announced in mid-December. ""The fuel for this plant needs to be produced by the Natanz enrichment plant,"" Aqazadeh added.
Borujerdi said it is expected that in the next meeting of the committee and AEOI officials a “precise technical report” would be presented on the project so that the parliament could approve the necessary budget to the plan.
Building the plant will be a significant step in the field of nuclear technology by Iran, he insisted.
He added the parliament welcomes the participation of the foreign companies in Iran’s nuclear projects.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Borujerdi insisted that if Russia fulfills its commitments in regard to the Bushehr power plant, it would increase its chances of cooperating with Iran in the next projects.
On December 17, Russia delivered the first shipment of nuclear fuel to the Bushehr power plant in southern Iran.
Iran will soon announce an international tender for building 19 nuclear power plants, IRNA news agency quoted MP Kazem Jalali as saying.
Jalali, the spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said each power plant would have a capacity of 1,000 megawatt of electricity, Reuters reported