There were no other people at the reactor site.
There were also reports that Moscow was pulling experts from the nearly finished reactor site.
Spain stores nuclear waste at the reactor sites for ten years with no reprocessing.
"The next phase at Burghead will be to build a steel plant over the reactor site or something."
The plant's operation is opposed by Massachusetts towns two miles south of the reactor site.
Personnel simply can't spend much time at the reactor site without getting exposed to dangerous levels of radioactivity.
The plutonium also stays at the reactor site and can be consumed by the same or other reactors.
Although many of the workers who would operate the plant have left, replacements could be found at other reactor sites, he said.
Agency supervisors have been asked to leave the reactor site, although not the country.
In addition, at least one little owl has been raised on reactor site.