Earth Watch Report - Nuclear Event
| 12.06.2013 | Nuclear Event | Iran | Province of Bushehr, [Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant] |  |  |
Nuclear Event in Iran on Wednesday, 12 June, 2013 at 03:25 (03:25 AM) UTC.
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| Iran's Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant has suffered a malfunction in its main generator, the Islamic Republic's ambassador to Moscow said on Monday. Mahmoud Reza Sadjadi did not specify the nature of the malfunction or make clear whether it has caused the plant's shutdown, Russia's state Itar-TASS news agency reported. But he stressed that this fault was not caused by the series of earthquakes that shook Iran in recent weeks. "In close cooperation, our and Russian specialists are undertaking efforts to fix the malfunction," Sadjadi was quoted as saying. He added that the fault "was linked to the work of the generator" and had occurred some time ago, but provided no other details. Bushehr is Iran's only nuclear power plant and is located on the Gulf in the southern section of the country. The plant was officially opened in September 2011. Its initial construction was begun by Germany in the 1975 before being dropped because of Iran's Islamic revolution. |
FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2010, file photo, a worker rides a bike in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. Several countries monitoring Iran's nuclear program have picked up information that the country's only power-producing nuclear reactor was damaged by one or more of several recent earthquakes, with long cracks appearing in at least one section of the structure, two diplomats said Tuesday June 4, 2013.
MEHR NEWS AGENCY, MAJID ASGARIPOUR, FILE — AP Photo
Iran: Bushehr nuclear plant has generator problem
Published: June 10, 2013
MOSCOW — Iran's Russian-built nuclear power plant has had an electric generator malfunction, an Iranian official said Monday.
The flaw at the Bushehr plant wasn't caused by recent earthquakes in Iran, Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi, Iran's ambassador to Russia, was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying.
Sajjadi said Russian and Iranian experts are trying to fix the problem, without saying when it occurred or whether it led to the plant's shutdown.
Russia's state-controlled Rosatom nuclear agency, which built the plant, had no comment on Sajjadi's statement.
Read Full Article HereThe flaw at the Bushehr plant wasn't caused by recent earthquakes in Iran, Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi, Iran's ambassador to Russia, was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying.
Sajjadi said Russian and Iranian experts are trying to fix the problem, without saying when it occurred or whether it led to the plant's shutdown.
Russia's state-controlled Rosatom nuclear agency, which built the plant, had no comment on Sajjadi's statement.
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