Russian roulette: Rosatom increases its presence in Iran, construction of reactors resumes

The Russian company Rosatom cooperates with Iran, building nuclear reactor blocks at the Bushehr power plant, as well as exchanging nuclear technologies.

A few months ago, Reuters reported that Rosatom was carrying out a multi-stage evacuation of its employees from the Bushehr nuclear power plant due to the escalation of the conflict in the region. Specifically, this concerns the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which began on February 28, as well as Iranian retaliatory actions.

The IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, reported that on March 17, the missile hit an object approximately 350 meters from the reactor. The threat was therefore not hypothetical.

Today, Rosatom announced that the number of construction workers at the Iranian nuclear power plant in Bushehr will increase to 200 in November.

Rosatom's general director, Alexei Likhachev, said that this number of employees is necessary for the construction of the units to proceed as planned, which assumes completion in early 2027.