 The plant is going to be Iran's first indigenously designed and built nuclear power plant besides the research reactor of IR-40.In 1976 novel of Paul Erdman, "Crash of '79", Darkhovin Nuclear Power Plant is mentioned to have been completed by France and Mohammed Reza Pahlavi the then Shah of Iran uses the plant with the help from Israel and Switzerland to manufacture a dozen salted bombs.Plans for the site are not clear