Almost all Russian engineers consulting Iranian colleagues at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant will complete their work in the coming months, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran�s (AEOI) spokesman said Saturday.





MOSCOW (Sputnik) � The Iranian National Regulatory Authority (INRA) issued a five-year license for�Bushehr�s unit 1 after�exhausting all related legal technical inspections and the necessary control, Behrouz Kamalvandi said in�an AEOI�s statement.

Kamalvandi added the fewer than�60 Russian advisers working at�the site would be reduced in�the "coming months."

He noted that the reduction was part of�Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom�s handover of�Bushehr in�September 2013 that saw a three-year period, in�which the remaining Russian engineers would provide consulting services. At the time, there were 270 Russian engineers at�Bushehr.

The AEOI spokesman stressed the "utmost importance" of�attaining the license for�both Rosatom as�the contractor and the Iran Nuclear Power Production-Development (NPPD) company as�the operator.

The Russian-Iranian agreement on�the civil use of�nuclear energy, followed by�a deal to�construct Iran's first nuclear power plant, dates from�1992. The Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant started operating in�Iran in�2011 and reached full capacity the following�year.

An agreement to�expand civilian nuclear energy cooperation and construct a total of�eight additional nuclear reactors at�Bushehr was signed between�the sides on�November 11, 2014.

On Friday, Rosatom�s press service announced full-scale construction of Bushehr-2 and Bushehr-3 as�soon as�the technical aspects were resolved within�the next weeks.
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