Locating Top Ten Areas of Nuclear Power Stations in Iran

Diversity of power generation in each country can be considered a form of passive defense policy. Although there are enough fossil energy resources in Iran, due to several reasons, diversifying energy production centers has always been considered as a strategic policy and if we consider the occurrence of natural events and unpredictable disasters and the promotion of the diversity of scientific and technical professions to this collection, validity of such a strategy will be more clear. Locating such plants has attracted attention of land logisticians and due to environmental issues and security matters, it demands more attention and accuracy. This article, which is based on Christaller and Lush’s theory, underlying the three main factors of environmental considerations, security, and access to the main power supply network and applying geographical information system, first attempts to determine the appropriate locations based on these three features, then, applying a provision of access to the beach and the sea depth in the form of TOPSIS priority ranking, it priorities ten points in Iran, as the candidate for building plants. The results of this study show that the distribution of certain areas of Iran has the advantage of such election and from the total of 10 points two regions in the north coasts, two regions in the domestic land, one region in the coast of Oman and five regions in Persian Gulf have the priority of being selected as locations for establishing nuclear power plants in Iran.