Iran: Bushehr nuclear plant has generator problem

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Source: Associated Press

Iran: Bushehr nuclear plant has generator problem

AP foreign, Monday June 10 2013

MOSCOW (AP) — 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.

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2. According to International Atomic Energy Agency the plant has "cracks several meters long"

Although the observed cracks were not in the reactor area they said damage to the reactor could not be ruled out because they've been unable to inspect it.