IRAN is to start work in the next six months on a second nuclear power station, the energy minister said, amid increasing tension with the West over its atomic programme. "We have received the plans of (Iran's atomic energy chief) Gholam Reza Aghazadeh and the authorisation to start building the power station," said Energy Minister Parviz Fattah in comments published in local newspapers. "We are expecting to start the construction of the power station in the next six months," he said. Former energy minister, the reformist Habibollah Bitaraf, would be charged with the project, he said. Iran's nuclear programme, which...
