Rosatom’s chief executive, Alexey Likhachev, announced on Wednesday that the Russian nuclear corporation will raise the number of its experts working at Iran’s Bushehr power plant. The staff increase will bring the total to roughly seven hundred specialists. The additional engineers and technicians are expected to support the plant’s ongoing operations in the country’s southern region. Likhachev made the statement in Tehran on October 28. The move reflects continued cooperation between the two nations in the nuclear field. No further details on the timing of the deployment were provided.