Posted on 06/20/2021 9:30:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Iran’s sole nuclear power plant has undergone an unexplained temporary emergency shutdown, state TV reported on Sunday.
An official from state electric company Tavanir, Gholamali Rakhshanimehr, said on a talk show that the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last “for three to four days.”
Without elaborating, he said that power outages could result. This is the first time Iran has reported an emergency shutdown of the plant, located in the southern port city of Bushehr. It went online in 2011 with help from Russia. Iran is required to send spent fuel rods from the reactor back to Russia as a nuclear nonproliferation measure.
Earlier on Sunday, Tavanir released a statement saying that the nuclear plant was being repaired, without offering further details. It said the repair work would take until Friday.
In March, nuclear official Mahmoud Jafari said the plant could stop working since Iran cannot procure parts and equipment for it from Russia due to banking sanctions imposed by the United States in 2018.
Bushehr is fueled by uranium produced in Russia, not Iran, and is monitored by the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA did not immediately respond to request for comment on the reported shutdown.
Construction on Bushehr, on the coast of the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf, began under Iran’s shah in the mid-1970s. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the plant was repeatedly targeted in the Iran-Iraq war. Russia later completed construction of the facility.
The plant, which sits near active fault lines and was built to withstand powerful quakes, has been periodically shaken by temblors. There have been no significant earthquakes reported in the area in recent days.
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Derail their plants and facilities before it is too late.
Wake up world! These murderers are about to get the bomb and the West repeats it’s classic do-nothing responses:
“We will not allow the Iranians to obtain the bomb”...
Read: West in 1938...”we will not allow Herr Hitler to march into the Sudetenland”...
Only Israel seems to be active in preventing this global disaster while Biden “negotiatiates”.
Hummm-mmmm .......
Bushehr is fuelled by uranium produced in Russia, not Iran, and is monitored by the United Nationsas if they can control Iran.
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Paisley, you expletive-deleted, CoupFlu doesn't come close to THOSE. And those aren't going away any time soon, are they.
Jeez, wrong thread...
Go Israel!
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