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Projectile Hits Near Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Plant With No Damage Reported
The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed no damage or radiation leak after a projectile struck near Bushehr, Iran's sole operational nuclear power plant.
- On Tuesday evening, a projectile struck the vicinity of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant around 7 p.m., Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, Rosatom, and the IAEA confirmed no damage or injuries.
- The strike comes in the third week of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, making Bushehr the second nuclear facility targeted since Feb. 28 after Natanz was hit on March 3, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
- The Bushehr plant is Iran's only operational reactor and was connected to the grid in 2011, generating up to 1,000 megawatts with Russian technicians from Rosatom and two planned additional reactors.
- Aleksei Likhachev, director-general of Rosatom, condemned the strike and urged de-escalation, reporting no casualties among Rosatom personnel, while IAEA chief Rafael Grossi called for maximum restraint to prevent a nuclear accident.
- With the origin of the projectile unclear and the IAEA relying on Iranian reporting, no independent images or damage assessments have been published, underscoring uncertainty about what struck Bushehr.
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A projectile strikes at the site of the Iranian nuclear power plant Buschehr. Iran and Russia give warning, but the tensions continue.
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Iranian and Russian authorities say that an attack on nuclear facilities increases the risk of a radiological incident.
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Iranian and Russian officials state that Bushehr's nuclear centre was hit by a projectile, so the centre did not release any radioactive material during the incident.
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