Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – November 10, 1992

First, we went by helicopter to the Shahid Rajaei power plant, near Qazvin. [Mr. Bijan Namdar Zanganeh], Minister of Energy was also with me and explained on the way. Engineer [Mohammed Sadiq] Selajgeh, [CEO of Tawanir Company], explained in the market hall. The general plan is that two thousand megawatts of electricity will be implemented in two phases with eight units of two hundred and fifty megawatts. In the past, the power plant was built on a turnkey basis, but for the first time, it has been decided to build different parts inside and outside under our own management, and today we opened the first 250 MW unit.

We visited the water treatment plant, cooling towers, substation, turbines, generators, boilers, control room and area. I got a lot of information. It is supposed to add 1000 megawatts with combined cycle. In the amphitheater, the report of the Minister of Energy

We heard and I spoke. A short interview was also conducted.

The managers of Azarab and Arak Machine Manufacturing factories came and explained their manufacturing parts and asked that more work be given to them.

From there, we went to Ziyaran slaughterhouse by car. Managers explained. It has the capacity of 100,000 sheep and 8,000 cattle at the same time, with a complete industrial slaughterhouse and side needs where blood, skin, horns, hooves and other parts of livestock are used well. It was harmful in the past. It has been profitable since last year. We visited different departments.

The sight of the killings made me sad; First, they gave an electric shock and made the cows unconscious, then slaughtered and skinned, and so on, until packing the meat and other parts. The carcasses were moving with rails and sixty workers were in place, each doing something; They have good order.

After prayer and lunch, we flew to the nuclear energy center for agricultural and health research. The manager explained. We visited the magnetic separation centers [= centrifuge] given by the Chinese and also different parts and spaces. Explanations were provided in each section. We landed in Saadabad in the evening.