Tens Dead, Hundreds Injured As 6.1 Earthquake Hits Near Iran's Nuclear Power Plant

A few hours ago, a major 6.1 magnitude quake struck in Iran once again, some 100 km away from Bushehr - location of Iran's only nuclear power plant. According to subsequent reports, at least 30 people have been killed and nearly 600 injured, although at least for now the official version is that the power plan was undamaged. From Al Jazeera: "Fereydoon Hasanvand, governor of Bushehr, said the nuclear plant was undamaged by Tuesday's earthquake. "No damage at all has been caused" to the plant, he told state television. The Russian company that built the nuclear-power station, 18km south of Bushehr, said the quake had been felt there but that operations at the plant were not affected. "The earthquake in no way affected the normal situation at the reactor."

Of course, as TEPCO and Japan so vividly and glowingly in the dark demonstrated, when it comes to nuclear power plants, the last thing to be released, long after the alpha, beta and gamma rays, is the truth. We doubt this time would be any different.

A description of the ordeal via Al Jazeera:

One Busehr resident said her home and the homes of her neighbours were shaken by the quake but not damaged.

"We could clearly feel the earthquake," Nikoo, who requested to be identified only by her first name, told Reuters news agency by telephone.

"The windows and chandeliers all shook."

The quake hit at 1152 GMT with a depth of 12km, the Iran Seismological Centre said.

The US Geological Survey, which monitors quakes worldwide, ranked the quake at a more powerful 6.3 magnitude.

Tremors from the earthquake in western Iran could also be felt in Gulf countries.

In Doha, the Qatari capital, residents told Al Jazeera that they could feel buildings shake before residents were evacuated.

There was no immediate reports of damage.

In brief: no mentions of HAARP anywhere. Just as it should be.

Comments

[Money 4 Nothing]

If they go back to taking the USD for oil trade, all that shakin will stop.

[bob_stl]

Stuxquake

[Trajan]

dem damn juws!!!!

[Canucklehead]

The Japanese would think of namazu

http://pinktentacle.com/2011/04/namazu-e-earthquake-catfish-prints/

It could be Bass... with a Kyle chaser.

[Trampy]

Alarmist nonsense!  Very unlike Fukushima and Chernobyl, there is absolutely no indication of any damage to their nuclear power plant.  Recently built Russian nuclear reactors are probably orders of magnitude "safer" than the US' Fukushima 40 (almost entirely) relicensed (Rube Goldberg design) early 1960s GE Mark 1 reactors of which the Amerikan sheeple have no fear whatsoever.

Tyler, if you really are interested in whether nuclear safety is an oxymoron, please use your press standing to investigate why this widely reported news story from April 3 has absoluetly no followup and there are no company press releases or nuclear regulator incident reports that I can find, and I know where to look for them.  I heard about it on Ransquawk.

http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USL5N0CQ37820130403

FAIR USE:

Urenco, Areva subsidiary says stops production Wed, Apr 3 2013

AMSTERDAM, April 3 (Reuters) - Enrichment Technologies, which is jointly owned by Areva and Urenco, said on Wednesday it had shut facilities in five countries after two workers died from their injuries in an accident at its Dutch plant last week.

The company, which supplies Urenco and Areva with machines for enriching uranium, stopped production on March 31 in the Netherlands, Germany, France, the United States and the United Kingdom, a spokeswoman said.

"We don't know when production will restart," she said without giving more details about the accident.

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