Iran has picked a location and is designing a new 360-megawatt nuclear power plant, Reuters reported Sunday, citing a senior Iranian atomic official.
The report didn't elaborate on the location of the second plant.
The deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Saeedi, said the government was "involved in the design phase" of the new power station, Reuters reported on its Web site, citing Iran's official IRNA news agency.
Iran still hasn't completed construction of its first nuclear power plant and previously has sent conflicting signals about the state of work on the second plant, Reuters said.
The first plant has a capacity of 1,000 megawatts and is being built by Russia in the city of Bushehr, it said.