Rosatom begins returning specialists to Bushehr NPP

TASS · 🇺🇸 public United States · Aug 09, 2026 · 214 words

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What to know about Rosatom begins returning specialists to Bushehr NPP

Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev announced that Russian specialists are returning to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Iran. The company aims to increase personnel to 100 by autumn, contingent on the stability of relations between the United States and Iran.

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What happened

Rosatom has begun returning specialists to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant site in Iran, with the first five engineering personnel already arriving, the state corporation’s CEO Alexey Likhachev told reporters.

Why it matters

"We have begun returning specialists to the construction site of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.

Common ground

The first five members of the engineering staff have already arrived at our residential compound and begun carrying out their work.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Rosatom has begun returning specialists to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant site in Iran”

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Multiple independent sources (UAWire, Interfax, and other web search results) confirm that Rosatom has started returning specialists to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (Turkish: Akkuyu Nükleer Güç Santrali) is a large nuclear power plant in Turkey under construction in Akkuyu, Büyükeceli, Mersin Province. It is expected to generate aro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkuyu_Nuclear_Power_Plant

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (Persian: نیروگاه اتمی بوشهر) is a nuclear power plant in Iran, located 17 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of the city of Bushehr, 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) south of Tehra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushehr_Nuclear_Power_Plant

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, commonly known as Rosatom (Russian: Государственная корпорация по атомной энергии «Росатом», romanized: Gosudarstvennaya korporatsiya po atomnoy energii "Rosat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosatom

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Claim 2: “the total number of Russian specialists has reached 25”

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Two separate sources confirm the total number of Russian specialists at the site has reached 25: one citing Alexei Likhachev and another from Tasnim news agency.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant (Egyptian Arabic: محطة الضبعة للطاقة النووية) is an under construction nuclear power plant in El Dabaa, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt, about 320 kilometers northwest of Cairo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dabaa_Nuclear_Power_Plant

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Claim 3: “preparatory work is underway on hydraulic engineering facilities”

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Both TASS and another web search result explicitly state that preparatory work on hydraulic engineering facilities is underway.

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web search NEUTRAL — Preparatory work on hydraulic engineering facilities is also underway. The sequence is deliberately reversible.Rosatom engineers return Bushehr nuclear power plant Iran. Russian specialists resume wor…
https://iaqaba.com/rosatom-returns-workers-bushehr-nuclear-p…

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web search NEUTRAL — "We have begun returning specialists to the construction site of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.Construction of the main and auxiliary buildings for Units 2 and 3 is continuing at the site, while pre…
https://tass.com/economy/2170689

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web search NEUTRAL — This page is part of the Facilities Collection. The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is Iran’s first commercial nuclear reactor.7 Indicating that the plant was nearing completion, engineers conducte…
https://www.nti.org/education-center/facilities/bushehr-nucl…

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Claim 4: “Rosatom plans to send another group of several dozen employees to the Bushehr NPP within the next two weeks”

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TASS and Interfax both report that Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev stated plans to send several dozen more specialists to the site in the coming weeks (specifically mentioning September).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The water-water energetic reactor (WWER), or VVER (from Russian: водо-водяной энергетический реактор (ВВЭР), romanized: vodo-vodyanoi enyergeticheskiy reaktor) is a series of pressurized water reactor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVER

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Claim 5: “the first five engineering personnel already arriving”

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The arrival of the first five engineering personnel is explicitly mentioned by multiple sources, including UAWire and a report citing Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The nuclear power debate is a long-running controversy about the risks and benefits of using nuclear reactors to generate electricity for civilian purposes. The debate about nuclear power peaked durin…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This timeline of nuclear power is an incomplete chronological summary of significant events in the study and use of nuclear power. This is primarily limited to sustained fission and decay processes, a…
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Claim 6: “the company plans to increase the number of its personnel working on the project to 100 by autumn”

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TASS and Interfax both report the goal of increasing personnel to 100 by autumn, citing Alexei Likhachev.

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Claim 7: “Construction of the main and auxiliary buildings for Units 2 and 3 is continuing at the site”

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TASS and Ajel English both report that construction of the main and auxiliary buildings for Units 2 and 3 is continuing, citing Likhachev.

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