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with 9,615 tonnes (no annual comparison was provided).
Iran produced 18.5mn tonnes of steel ingot in the first 11 months of the 2019/2020 Persian year (year ends on March 19), marking growth of 4% y/y, Mehr news agency reported on March 14.
Bonab Steel Production Company reportedly registered 865% growth in producing billet ingot in the period while Esfahan’s Mobarakeh Steel Company and Hormozgan and Saba steel companies produced 8,389,280 tonnes of steel, approximately the same amount as was recorded in the first 11 months of the 2018/2019 Persian year.
Iran’s total steel production volume, including rebar, beam, hot and wide steel sheets, galvanized sheet and pipe hit 12,308,475 tonnes, up 7% y/y.
Iran is working to a strategy running to 2025 under which its steel production capacity would rise to 55mn tonnes. It stood at 35mn tonnes by March 20, 2019.
9.1.13 ​Renewable energy sector news
Russia’s Rosatom has announced the delivery of another shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant on the Persian Gulf, the Russian embassy in Tehran reported on April 29.
The US quietly renewed waivers on April 1 covering Russia’s work with the plant as part of a 60-day renewed exemption package — a legacy of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as part of Russia’s commitments.
“As a result of the joint efforts of the OAEI, State Atomic Energy Corporation 'Rosatom' and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, another consignment of nuclear fuel was delivered to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP),” the embassy announced.
The memo said that Bushehr plant needed further fuel and this “is necessary for the further successful functioning of the reactor.”
Russia announced late in 2019 that it would halt co-operation with Iran at an underground nuclear development site called Fordo, sparking fears for the continued operation of Bushehr which powers cities in the south of Iran.
Its announcement came shortly after Iranian authorities said they were once again enriching uranium at Fordo in breach of the nuclear accord, signed with six world powers but unilaterally abandoned by the US in May 2018.
The ​Russians said their decision​ to exit the project was not directly related to Iran’s decision to restart enrichment.
"Uranium enrichment and the production of stable isotopes cannot be carried out in the same room," Rosatom nuclear fuel cycle unit TVEL said in a statement, adding that the implementation of the project was "technologically impossible" currently.
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