The Russian nuclear agency Rosatom announced on Tuesday, March 3, the cessation of operations at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, and the evacuation of Russian personnel from there, due to the risks created by American-Israeli bombings, according to Reuters.
Bushehr is home to Iran’s only nuclear power plant, which uses Russian nuclear fuel, the residues of which are taken back by Russia to reduce proliferation risks, notes Agerpres, citing the international news agency.
Approximately 600 Russian specialists, of which 250 are permanent, are assigned to this power plant located on the Persian Gulf coast.
“The plant is in danger, as explosions are heard kilometers from the plant’s defense line. The attacks are not directed against the plant, but against the military installations located there, but the threat clearly increases as the conflict intensifies”, explained the director of the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev.
Likhachev warned that “any breach of the reactor’s integrity or the fuel storage facilities would result in the contamination of vast territories and completely unpredictable displacements of contaminating substances, which will depend on atmospheric phenomena\”.
The director of the Russian nuclear agency had previously warned that an attack on this plant, especially on its first generator block, would cause a nuclear catastrophe comparable to that of Chernobyl.
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