Rosatom will evacuate more than 200 employees from the Iranian Bushehr nuclear power plant this week

The Russian nuclear operator Rosatom announced this Wednesday that more than 200 employees of the Iranian nuclear power plant in Bushehr will leave the Asian country this week, in what is expected to be the last evacuation of personnel after the attacks registered on its facilities within the framework of the United States and Israel offensive against Iran.

“We are preparing the last phase of the evacuation this week; more than 200 people are expected to leave the plant and head to Armenia,” said Rosatom director Alexei Lijachev in an interview with the Russian television channel Rossiya 24.

Lijachev has indicated that the plant will not be abandoned “completely”, since around 50 people will remain working there on a voluntary basis. This number, he considered, “will be sufficient to guarantee this pause and ensure the operation of the machinery (…) of the public service facilities.”

“A nuclear installation, a job of this magnitude, cannot be completely ignored,” he defended after the evacuation of more than 400 people from the Bushehr plant, recalling that it has suffered up to three bombings in more than a month of war.

The plant, operated by Rosatom, has a thousand megawatt reactor in operation and two others under construction of the same capacity each. The Kremlin has warned Donald Trump’s Administration of the risk of attacking these types of facilities in Iran.