Russia has moved into what Rosatom describes as the final phase of removing its workforce from the Bushehr nuclear power plant, leaving only a minimal complement of staff at the facility, Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev said.
According to Likhachev, a group of 108 employees departed the site on Monday morning, after which 20 individuals remained on duty. He told Russia’s TASS state news agency that the remaining personnel are engineering and technical staff assigned to maintain the safety of equipment at the Russian-built plant in southern Iran.
The evacuation follows a phased withdrawal that Rosatom began soon after the start of the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran. The drawdown has continued even after a U.S.-Iran cease-fire was announced last week by President Trump, Likhachev said. Prior to the onset of the conflict, Rosatom’s own figures indicated that about 700 Russian specialists worked at Bushehr.
Rosatom’s account frames the current posture at Bushehr as one in which operational safety tasks are still being carried out by a small, technically focused crew while the broader expatriate complement departs. Likhachev’s comments, as reported by TASS, provide the primary public description of the scale and composition of the workforce remaining at the site.
Details beyond the numbers provided by Rosatom are limited. The company has characterized the remaining 20 staffers specifically as those responsible for the safety of equipment, but further operational or logistical information about the phased evacuation has not been included in Rosatom’s statements cited by TASS.
Summary
Rosatom says it has entered the final stage of evacuating personnel from the Bushehr nuclear power plant, with 108 employees leaving Monday morning and 20 engineering and technical staff remaining to safeguard equipment. The withdrawal began after the start of the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran and has proceeded despite a U.S.-Iran cease-fire announced last week by President Trump. Before the conflict, around 700 Russian specialists were based at the plant, according to Rosatom.