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Bushehr Turbine Hall

BBC has a fav pic that uses for Iran’s nuclear program (right).

I noticed it once, didn’t immediately recognize what it was, then forgot to follow up. Someone asked about the image in the comments section and, voila, the Arms Control Wonk community produced an answer: the turbine hall at Bushehr.

Other images of the turbine hall are available from Reuters and AFP.

My favorite image, however, isn’t of the turbine hall at all, but a schematic of a German-designed hall quite similar in layout. If you want to know, more or less, what a nuclear power plant looks like on the inside (Hello! rhetorical question), just click the pretty pic.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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