Bangladesh, May 9 -- The head of Russias state nuclear energy corporation has said Irans Bushehr nuclear power plant remains fully operational and unaffected by the latest military tensions involving the United States and Iran, despite reports of ceasefire violations and renewed exchanges in the Persian Gulf region.

Rosatom CEO Aleksey Likhachev stated that Russian specialists stationed at the Bushehr facility had not observed any attacks near the plant in recent days and that conditions around the site remain “generally calm.”

Speaking in an interview published by Rosatoms corporate newspaper Strana Rosatom on May 8, Likhachev said the facilitys sole operating reactor, Bushehr Unit 1, continues to function at full capacity ...