The situation around Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant is calming down, but Russia has not yet decided whether to return its employees to the plant after they were removed from the country because of the war.
Alexei Likhachev, CEO of state-owned Rosatom, announced on 29 April that the situation in Bushehr was “clearing up a bit” and that about 1,000 Iranian employees had already returned to their jobs.
“We are receiving an invitation from the leadership of the Iranian nuclear industry to return (Russian specialists) as soon as possible, but no such decision has been made yet,” he told reporters.
Rosatom, which operates and controls the Bushehr nuclear plant, evacuated more than 300 of its employees to Russia shortly after the US-Israeli strikes began on 28 February.
Iran said the area around the plant had been hit by airstrikes four times during the war. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Raphael Grossi said one bomb fell “75 metres” from the plant and called for an end to attacks near it.