 The two 1,196 MWe reactors, subcontracted to ThyssenKrupp AG, were based on the Convoy design (see on the German Wikipedia) and identical with the second reactor unit of the German Biblis Nuclear Power Plant.The first reactor was to be finished by 1980 and the second one by 1981.Kraftwerk Union was eager to work with the Iranian government because, as its spokesman said in 1976, "To fully exploit our nuclear power plant capacity, we have to land at least three contracts a year for delivery abroad.