KIEV, Feb. 10 - Ukrainian nuclear scientists and specialists are cooperating with Iranian colleagues at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, Iranian Ambassador to Kiev Akbar Ghasemi Ali Abadi said in an interview in the newspaper Segodnya.

"The cooperation is not recent; it started back in the Soviet period. Dozens of Ukrainian nuclear scientists and specialists are rather fruitfully cooperating with our scientists at the Bushehr NPP," he said.