A powerful earthquake struck close to Iran’s only nuclear power station, Bushehr nuclear plant, in April 2013, killing/ injuring people, destroying homes and villages. Even so the plant was found to be safe there wasn't any incident of any nuclear related accident. Russian company Atomstroyexport has produced the power plant. Reports implies that Bushehr reactor sits at the intersection of three tectonic plates.
Iran could be the only country operating a nuclear power plant that doesn't fit in with the Convention on Nuclear Safety, negotiated following a 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl which contaminated wide areas making 160,000 Ukrainians homeless. Iran sits on major fault lines and contains suffered several devastating earthquakes recently, together with a 6.6 magnitude quake in 2003 which flattened the southeastern capital of scotland- Bam and killed greater than 25,000 people. In August greater than 300 people were killed when two quakes struck the northwest.
The quake happened on National Nuclear Technology Day when Iran’s leaders celebrate the technological advances it is said will reduce the country’s reliance upon non-renewable fuels, leaving more of its abundant oil for export. Israel, Gulf Arab states and a lot of Western countries fear Tehran requires a nuclear weapons capability as well as the Islamic Republic is under international sanctions directed at forcing it to curb numerous its atomic work. Iran denies it wants nuclear arms and says its atomic tasks are for electricity generation as well as other peaceful uses.
Iran could be the only country operating a nuclear power plant that doesn't fit in with the Convention on Nuclear Safety, negotiated following a 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl which contaminated wide areas making 160,000 Ukrainians homeless. Iran sits on major fault lines and contains suffered several devastating earthquakes recently, together with a 6.6 magnitude quake in 2003 which flattened the southeastern capital of scotland- Bam and killed greater than 25,000 people. In August greater than 300 people were killed when two quakes struck the northwest.
The quake happened on National Nuclear Technology Day when Iran’s leaders celebrate the technological advances it is said will reduce the country’s reliance upon non-renewable fuels, leaving more of its abundant oil for export. Israel, Gulf Arab states and a lot of Western countries fear Tehran requires a nuclear weapons capability as well as the Islamic Republic is under international sanctions directed at forcing it to curb numerous its atomic work. Iran denies it wants nuclear arms and says its atomic tasks are for electricity generation as well as other peaceful uses.
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