MOSCOW: Russia’s state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, has halted construction work at new units of Iran’s nuclear power plant in the port city of Bushehr because of the US-Israeli air assault on Iran, its chief Alexei Likhachev said on Tuesday. Likhachev had earlier warned of the threat posed by strikes near Iranian nuclear facilities, and said explosions could be heard “just kilometers away” from the plant, although the facility itself was not being targeted. Work has been stopped at the construction sites of the second and third units of the plant, he told journalists.

According to Alexey Likhachev, the company lost contact with the leadership of Iran's entire nuclear industry

Work at the Bushehr NPP construction site has been completely suspended

MOSCOW: Russia’s state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, has halted construction work at new units of Iran’s nuclear power plant in the port city of Bushehr because of the US-Israeli…