Increasing the Russian workforce at the Bushehr power plant to 200 people Alexei Lichchev, President of Rosatom: The issue of returning Russian workers to the Bushehr nuclear power plant was discussed on Tuesday in talks between Putin and Pashkhian in Moscow. Moscow plans to increase the number of its forces to 200 in the Bushehr nuclear power plant construction project next month. Pezhkhian, in talks with Putin in Moscow, evaluated the return process of Russian soldiers active in the construction of Iran's nuclear power plant in Bushehr as very positive. Rosatom has begun building a fleet of floating nuclear power plants for Russia.