An official from the state electric company Tavanir, Gholamali Rakhshanimehr, said on a talk show that the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last “for three to four days.”
Second tremor of magnitude 4.5 has been reported near Iran nuclear site. The first tremor reported this morning was of 4.9 magnitude that had struck 10 km south-east of Borazjan, Iran, at 2.20 am GMT according to USGS.
The epicenter of the earthquake was 53 kilometers east of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.
A total of 440-megawatt (MW) of Nuclear Power generation is expected to begin in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka between November 27 and December 1 this year, as per Power System Operation Corporation Ltd (POSOCO). The two units of 220 MW each belongs to India's nuclear power operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL).
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