Iran's Bushehr Power Plant Resumes Operation 2 Weeks After Blackout - Official

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 03rd July, 2021) The Bushehr nuclear power station in Iran's south has resumed its work two weeks after the emergency outage of electricity, Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, a spokesman for the electricity industry, said on Saturday.

The power station reportedly experienced the emergency blackout due to technical issues in mid-June.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh dismissed all allegations that the incident was caused by an attack.�

"The work of the nuclear power station was stopped for several days after the technical malfunction had been discovered. Now it has been fixed; the power plant has resumed its work," Mashhadi said as broadcast by Iranian state-run tv channel Press TV.

The spokesman added that the Iranian energy grid will receive 1,000 megawatts of electricity after the resumption.