Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant, alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by early 2014, state television reported on Sunday, quoting the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organisation. full story ![]()
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran plans to build more nuclear power reactors in an earthquake-prone coastal area, Iranian media said on Wednesday, a day after a strong tremor struck the region close to its only existing such plant.
reuters.com (2 months and 11 days ago)
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's vice president says the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been disconnected from the country's electricity grid because of a mechanical problem.Fereidoun Abbasi, vice president and head of Iran's nuclear agency, said there was a problem with the power plant's generator, according to the official IRNA news agency Wednesday.
bostonherald.com (3 months and 8 days ago)

AT least 30 people have been killed and 800 injured in a powerful earthquake that struck close to Iran's only nuclear power plant.
news.com.au (2 months and 12 days ago)
THREE people are dead after an earthquake struck near the home to Iran's only nuclear power plant.
news.com.au (2 months and 12 days ago)
TEHRAN, Iran-Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman is denying reports that the country's Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant has suffered a malfunction.
denverpost.com (8 days ago)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman is denying reports that the country's Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant has suffered a malfunction.
yahoo.com (8 days ago)
An Iranian official says his nation's Russian-built nuclear power plant has suffered an electric generator malfunction. Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi, Iran's ambassador to Russia, was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency on Monday as saying the flaw at the Bushehr plant wasn't caused by recent earthquakes in Iran. Sajjadi said Russian and Iranian experts are trying to fix the problem,...
foxnews.com (9 days ago)
VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it was "deeply troubled" by Iran's plans to start a reactor in 2014 that could yield nuclear bomb material while failing to give U.N. inspectors necessary design information about the plant.
reuters.com (14 days ago)

The earthquake struck the town of Kaki some 96 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Bushehr, a town on the Persian Gulf that is home of Iran's first nuclear power plant, built with Russian help.
dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 11 days ago)

A magnitude-6.1 earthquake killed at least three people when it struck near the Gulf port city of Bushehr, home to Iran's only nuclear power plant.
abc.net.au (2 months and 12 days ago)
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