Russia’s Rosatom Returns Workers to Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant
(Bloomberg) -- Russia state-owned atomic energy company Rosatom is continuing to return employees to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, Interfax reported, citing the company’s Chief Executive Officer Alexey Likhachev.
The number of Russian specialists back at the plant has reached 42, Likhachev said. “If all goes well, we’ll increase our staff to 100 people this autumn,” he said, adding that the situation at the facility is calm.
Rosatom began evacuating staff from Bushehr, located on the Persian Gulf about 1,215 km (755 miles) south of Tehran, in the spring after the US and Israel launched military operations against Iran in late February.
Russian employees at the plant were reduced to a skeleton staff of about 20 people, Bloomberg reported in April.
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