MOSCOW [MENL] -- Russia plans to bid for an Iranian project to construct six nuclear reactor.

Russian Atomic Energy Agency director Alexander Rumyantsev said Iran has decided to construct six nuclear reactors over the next decade. Russia has been contracted to complete Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr in 2006.

"When Iran declares new tenders to construct new nuclear energy reactors, we shall take part," Rumyantsev said.

Officials said the six proposed Iranian nuclear reactors would comprise of light-water facilities with a capacity to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity. They said Iran could launch the project by 2007.