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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Thursday that a “projectile hit” near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, striking a structure about 350 meters from the reactor.In a statement posted on Twitter, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said the reactor itself was not damaged and no injuries were reported. However, he warned that any attacks near nuclear facilities violate key security principles. “Although there was no damage to the reactor and no injuries to personnel, any attack on or near nuclear power plants violates the seven indispensable pillars of ensuring nuclear security during armed conflict and should never happen,” he said.The agency did not specify the nature of the projectile that fell in an area near the Bushehr plant on Iran’s Persian Gulf coast, about 480 miles south of Tehran. The facility currently has one operational unit, with two additional Russian-designed units under construction.Iran and Russia have alleged that a projectile hit the Bushehr nuclear power plant complex, raising fears of a possible radiological incident amid Tehran’s ongoing conflict with Israel and the United States.Although there were no reports of leakage of nuclear material following Tuesday evening’s incident, it once again highlighted long-standing concerns among Iran’s neighbors that the Persian Gulf facility could be vulnerable to attacks or natural disasters such as earthquakes.Alexey Likhachev, the head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, earlier said the attack occurred at 15:11 GMT on Tuesday and hit an area close to the plant’s meteorological service, near an operating power unit.He stressed that safety remains the top priority, adding that the number of personnel at the site has already been partially reduced. “The protection of human life is our absolute priority. We had previously partially reduced the number of personnel at the construction site of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Units 2 and 3. Approximately 250 workers and their families were safely evacuated from Iran. Children of the workers had already been evacuated before the armed conflict began. About 480 of our friends live there. Preparations are underway to evacuate the third personnel,\u201d he said.Rosatom also condemned the incident and urged all parties to reduce tensions around the nuclear facility.The attack comes amid ongoing hostilities after the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran on February 28, targeting its leadership and military infrastructure. After this, Iran retaliated and the conflict continues. Grossi has repeatedly called for diplomacy, saying that “to achieve long-term assurances that Iran will not acquire nuclear weapons and to maintain the continued effectiveness of the global nonproliferation regime, we must return to diplomacy and dialogue”.The first unit of the Bushehr plant was connected to the grid in 2011. It is a Russian-designed VVER reactor with a capacity of 915 MW. Two additional VVER-1000 units are under construction, with Unit 2 making steady progress as its first concrete was poured in 2019 and key structural components were installed in recent years.Iran has indicated that Unit 2 could be operational by 2029. According to Rosatom, work is also underway on Unit 3. In September 2025, Rosatom and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran signed an agreement to cooperate on small modular reactors, as Iran aims to expand its nuclear capacity to 20 GW by 2041.<\/p>\n Bushehr, a working civilian nuclear power plant, remained untouched during the 12-day Israel-Iran conflict in June. During that period, the US targeted three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites, damaging centrifuges and possibly burying 60% of Tehran’s highly enriched uranium reserves underground. Since then, Iran has restricted access to those sites, blocking inspections by the IAEA.Any attack on an operating nuclear power plant increases the risk of radioactive leaks into the environment, a concern that has loomed large since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, where nuclear facilities have repeatedly come under threat.A potential radiation leak in the Persian Gulf would pose an existential crisis for the Gulf Arab states, many of which rely heavily on desalination plants in the region for their water supplies.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AI-generated image used for representation (Source: ChatGPT) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Thursday that a “projectile hit” near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, striking a structure about 350 meters from the reactor.In a statement posted on Twitter, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said the reactor itself was not damaged and no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1279,4201,4205,4204,4200,4203,531,2584,4202],"class_list":["post-9518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bible-news","tag-attack","tag-bushehr","tag-flags","tag-iaea","tag-meters","tag-misses","tag-nuclear","tag-projectile","tag-reactor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9520,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518\/revisions\/9520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bushehr was saved in June conflict, now investigation is increasing
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