Iran’s only nuclear plant back online after two-week shutdown

Bushehr plant manager says power generation resumed and asks Iranians to minimise electricity consumption.

Iran’s only nuclear power plant has been brought back online after two weeks off-grid amid conflicting reports over an apparent regular maintenance operation. Bushehr plant’s manager Mahmoud Jafari said on Monday that the “technical fault” that shut down the plant’s 1,000-megawatt reactor on Iran’s southern coast was fixed. That allowed the plant to resume power generation and be reconnected, said Jafari, who is also the deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).