‘Little danger from nuclear plant’
NZPA-Reuter Nicosia Iran’s atomic energy chief charged Bagdad with responsibility for any radiation leaks that may have occurred after Iraqi air raids on an unfinished nuclear power plant on the Iranian Gulf coast. The International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) said in Vienna on Wednesday that the amount and nature of nuclear material at the Bushehr plant could not pose a significant radiation danger.
The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, Reza Amrollahi, said “all lAEA resolutions will be under question” if the United Nations body did not move to stop Iraqi attacks, the Iranian news
agency IRNA said on Wednesday from Bushehr. Iran said 10 people, including an Iranian nuclear expert and a West German engineer, died in the raids on the plant on Tuesday. The lAEA said it was prepared to offer assistance to Iran, but had made a preliminary decision to reject Teheran’s request to condemn the Iraqi raids and send experts to assess damage.
Construction of the two nuclear power generation units at Bushehr was started by the West German firm Kraftwerk Union in the mid-19705, but was halted after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. The plant has never come on stream.
A spokesman in Bagdad said Iranian planes attacked a hospital in the northern town of Dohuk near the Turkish border on Wednesday, killing nine people and injuring 64.
Iran’s war bulletins said its aircraft flew two sorties against “military and economic targets and supply routes” in Iraq’s northeastern Sulaymaniyah province.
Teheran Radio, monitored in Cyprus, said Revolutionary Guard commandos and Kurdish Iraqi rebels killed or wounded 1000 Iraqi troops and knocked out power installations on Monday at Darbandikhan Dam, 220 km northeast of Bagdad.
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