Russia's Rosatom plans to increase staff at Iran's Bushehr plant

The head of Russia's state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom said Sunday that the company plans to increase its staff at Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant to 100 by the fall, as long as the current conflict allows, Russia's state news agency Tass reported. Alexey Likhachev said Rosatom has begun returning specialists to the Bushehr construction site, with the first five engineering and technical workers already arriving and starting work. "That brings the total number of Russian specialists to 25," he said. Likhachev said Rosatom plans to return all specialists previously evacuated from Iran "as soon as possible," but said a return to prewar staffing levels would depend on final agreements between the United States and Iran on ending hostilities. "We plan to send the next group, several dozen employees, in the next two weeks," he said.