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Russia calls for 'safety island' around Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant

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19-03-2026 | 09:15

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A senior Russian official called on Thursday for the creation of a safety zone around Iran's Russian-built Bushehr nuclear plant to prevent a major disaster, two days after a projectile struck within several hundred meters of its reactor.

Alexei Likhachev, head of state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said there were 72 tons of fissile material and 210 tons of spent nuclear fuel at the site, and that any strike on it could lead to a catastrophe.

"If an incident were to occur, it would be at least regional in scale and would affect a large ⁠number of countries in the Middle East. None of the parties to the conflict would avoid radiation exposure in the event of a serious accident at Bushehr," Likhachev told reporters.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said a structure about 350 meters from the reactor was hit and destroyed, but there was no damage to the reactor itself and no injuries to staff. Rosatom said radiation levels around the ⁠plant remained normal.

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