A shell fell on the territory of the Bushehr nuclear power plant located near the Iranian city of the same name. This is what was reported by the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization. Transfer Tasnim Agency.
There was no damage or casualties.
The organization said that “such actions contravene all international norms” and “could have irreversible consequences for the entire region.”
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) I mentionedWhich received information from Iran about a missile falling on the Bushehr nuclear power plant building. The organization’s Director-General, Rafael Grossi, called for “maximum restraint during the conflict to prevent the risk of a nuclear accident.”
President of Rosatom Alexei Likhachev His name Strikes on existing nuclear power facilities in “flagrant disregard for basic rules and principles of international security.” Rosatom “strongly condemns what happened” and calls on the parties to the conflict “to make every effort to calm the situation” in the area of the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Likhachev explained that the attack on the territory of the station occurred at 18:11 Moscow time. There were no casualties among Rosatom personnel. The background radiation at the nuclear power plant was normal. According to him, there are still about 480 Russian employees at the station and a third evacuation of employees is being prepared.
Bushehr is the first nuclear power plant built in Iran. Its construction began in 1975 and was resumed after its cessation only in 1995 with the participation of Rosatom. The first power unit of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant with a capacity of 1,000 MW was transferred to Iran in 2013. In 2016, construction of the second power unit began.
Rosatom employees work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant under an agreement between Russia and Iran on the construction of new units for the plant. After the start of US and Israeli strikes on Iran, the Russian state company began removing its employees.