Analysis

Iran and Russia are enhancing their collaboration in the development of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. The partnership on the construction of the Bushehr NPP, the Middle East’s inaugural nuclear facility, is ongoing. The plant’s first reactor was operational in 2011, following a 2014 agreement between Iran’s Nuclear Power Production and Development Company (NPPD) and Atomstroyexport, a subsidiary of Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom.