Iranian Official Bushehr N.Plant is Safe against Quakes

An official with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) rejected the comparisons between the country's first nuclear power plant in the Southern port city of Bushehr and Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, urging that the Iranian power plant is fully resistant to earthquakes, reported Fars News Agency.

"As regards safety in the Bushehr reactor, we considered all the events (at different world nuclear power plants) registered during the history and took into consideration the possibility of earthquake based on the existing fault-lines before doing the designing similar to what we do when we want to select a site for building a nuclear facility," Head of Iran's Nuclear Safety System Nasser Rastkhah told FNA on Wednesday.

He reiterated that the Bushehr nuclear power plant complies with the latest safety rules and standards, and said, "Our up-to-date knowledge assures us that what happened to Fukushima will not occur at the Bushehr nuclear power plant."

Rastkhah blamed the 11-meter-high waves of tsunami for the Fukushima crisis, and said Japanese experts had predicted the possibility of 9-meter-high waves, but they did not imagine a bigger one was even possible.

And Iran is 100% sure that occurrence of such a tsunami is impossible in the Persian Gulf, he added.


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