Overview
- Rosatom said 163 employees left for the Iranian–Armenian border on Wednesday, leaving about 300 colleagues at the Bushehr site.
- The group departed in the morning and stayed overnight in Isfahan, with a border crossing expected Thursday night, according to CEO Alexey Likhachev.
- Likhachev said two more evacuation waves are planned for early April and that a core team will stay to maintain the plant and prepare for a restart of operations.
- Russia built the operating reactor at Bushehr and had been constructing new units, but Rosatom says that building work has been on hold since the US–Israeli war with Iran began last month.
- The latest pullout followed reports of an overnight strike on the compound, a claim not independently verified and featured more in regional outlets than in Russian state and wire reports.