רעידת אדמה באיראן שעות לאחר הפעלת הכור הגרעיני
סמוך למקום הכור הגרעיני בבושאר שהחל לפעול ביום א', התרחשה רעידת אדמה בעוצמה 4.8 לפנות בוקר. מומחים רבים ברחבי בעולם הביעו בימים האחרונים חששות בטחוניות בנוגע לבטיחות הכור לאור ההתרחשויות ביפן. הכור מקורו בפרוייקט גרמני משנות ה-70, אך הושבת לאחר המהפכה במוסלמית ב-1975. בשנות ה-90 רוסיה החלה לחדש את בניית הכור וכיום מובטחת לספק נפט ומומחים להפעיל אותו. ארה"ב חששה זמן רב כי מעורבות רוסיה מצביעה על תמיכתה של רוסיה בשאיפות האיראנים לנשק גרעיני. באוגוסט של שנה שעברה איראן אירגן טקס לפתיחת הכור, אך בעיות לוגיסטיות דחו את הפעלתה עד אתמול. באיראן משערים שהכור יספק חשמל החל מחודשיים.
לפני הטקס באוגוסט שנה שעברה, ג'ון בולטון, שגריר ארה"ב לאו"ם לשעבר, הזהיר כי יש לישראל ימים אחדים לתקוף את הכור בבושאר, כי לאחר שהוא יחל להתדלק, התקפה תוכל לגרום לקרינה רחבה על כל מדינות האזור.
הדברים מורחבים (יחד עם מפה של הכור ורעידת האדמה) באתר זה באנגלית:
http://ruchoshelmashiach.blogspot.com/2011/05/iran-turns-on-bushehr-quake-hits.html
הדברים מעותקים כאן באישור האתר הנ"ל:
Iran turns on Bushehr, quake hits
Rucho Shel Mashiach
On Sunday, Iran's first-ever nuclear power plant near the gulfside city of Bushehr began fuel consumption
for the first time since construction began in 1975. The Bushehr plant
was started in 1975 by German contractors, but construction was brought
to a halt after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979. In 1995, the Russia
began to oversee resumed construction of the plant.
The
Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is located at the junction of three
tectonic plates along the Persian Gulf, 11 miles outheast of the city of
Bushehr. On Monday morning, 02:47 local time, less than a day after the
plant became active, a 4.8 earthquake hit the city of Reig in the Bushehr province. See map for just how close the earthquake (A) was to the power plant (B).
Iran
boasts that the plant is quake-proof and will not experience a
situation similar to that of the Daichi plant in Fukushima, Japan. Yet
only three days ago, before the plant began to operate, the French
ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Florence Mangin, expressed concern
regarding the Bushehr plant in the context of global nuclear security.
According to Mangin, Iran is unwilling to adhere to key conventions
regarding nuclear activities.
On Sunday, a cooling pump shattered at the Bushehr plant,
forcing a shutdown during its initial start-up phase. According to Mark
Hibbs, an expert on Iranian nuclear issues at the Carnegie Endowment
for World Peace, the pump failure ''raises questions about the decisions
the Russians made to move forward with emergency coolant system that's
30 years old."
According to Bloomberg,
experts' safety concerns hinge on the plant's hybrid design, Iran's
reluctance to join international safety monitoring programs, and the
unknown reliability of some of the original components. According to
Bill Horak, chariman of the nuclear cience and technology department at
Brookhaven National Library in New York, Russians used old parts
supplied by the Germans in the 1970's in order to cut costs on the
plant's construction.
Countries concerned in
particular about the plant's safety include Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, who
would be affected within hours of a potential radiation leak at
Bushehr, according to the Kuwait Center for Strategic studies. Long-term
contamination in the Gulf could prove fatal, as gulf states rely on
desalinated freshwater for their water needs. In the present situation,
surrounding countries are forced to count on shaky Iranian promises and
Russian certification.
According to Moscow Defense Brief,
the US viewed Russia's involvement in Bushehr as indirect support for
the Iranian nuclear arms program, and until 2005 Washington exerted
significant pressure on Russia to stop the project
and urged other countries to ban their companies from taking part. Yet
in 2005, after Moscow and Tehran signed a deal under which spent fuel
would be returned to Russia, the US lifted its opposition. Under the
arrangement, Russia provides the nuclear fuel from the plant and
Russian experts will run the plant for several years.
An
official launch ceremony for the plant was held in August of last
year. After the launch ceremony, the former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence--the organization now "interrogating" bin Laden's widows-- celebrated the launch, declaring: "Iran's nuclear gains benefit Muslims".
In the week leading up to the launch ceremony, US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton warned
that Israel only has days to * the plant, as an attack on the
plant after fuel has been delivered would trigger widespread radiation.
תוקן על ידי משיח_בשטח ב- 09/05/2011 20:18:54
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