IAEA inspectors stay at work at Bushehr as Iran helps deliver spent fuel verification equipment

27 October 2026

Routine inspections across Iran's nuclear facilities have not resumed, but the IAEA says its inspectors are currently working at the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Iran's atomic energy agency cooperated in delivering the safeguards equipment the agency needs to verify spent fuel at the plant.
That spent fuel is expected to move to dry storage early next year, and the verification has to be done before the move.
The agency is separately seeking access to the Isfahan Fuel Enrichment Plant, a facility Iran declared shortly before the strikes of June 2025.
Grossi told the Security Council that past work with Iran shows constructive engagement is possible.
Bushehr is Iran's operating nuclear power station, and it is the one facility where inspectors currently have access.
The agency repeated that satellite monitoring cannot substitute for inspectors on the site.