Russian Atom Staffing at Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant Increases to 135

According to the International Desk of Webangah News Agency, Aleksey Likhachev, the head of Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, has revealed that the company has increased its personnel deployed to Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant to 135 individuals. These employees are engaged in operations across all three facilities of the Bushehr plant, including two units under construction and one operational unit.

Likhachev further stated that an additional nine Russian staff members have arrived in Iran to undertake planned and preventative maintenance on the first operational unit of the Bushehr plant. This brings the total number of Rosatom engineering and technical personnel at the plant site to 135. Earlier reports had indicated that 80 Rosatom employees had returned to the Bushehr facility.