The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi will visit Ukraine in the near future.
Grossi to visit Ukraine
This was announced by the Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko on the air of the telethon.
Perhaps he will visit the Zaporizhzhya NPP before that. The attention of the whole world is now focused on this. The presence of Russians there is a constant danger, the minister said.
He added that the situation at Zaporizhzhia NPP is getting worse and worse. According to him, the Russians allowed experts into the reactors on the third attempt, but this "doesn't change the overall picture."
Mines on the territory of the ZNPP
On January 19, the IAEA reported that its specialists had recorded mining of the station along the perimeter of the territory.
Mines around the perimeter of the ZNPP, in the buffer zone between the internal and external fences of the facility, which were previously identified by the IAEA team and were removed in November 2023, are now back in place. This is a restricted access area, inaccessible to factory personnel.
Raffaele Grossi emphasized that this is incompatible with safety standards.
The report also states that this week the ZNPP lost direct back-up power supply to the reactor units for several hours.
On January 18, the IAEA team visited all six main block control panels, where experts got acquainted with the level of staffing, but could not ask questions about their qualifications and experience.
The largest nuclear power plant in Europe — the Zaporizhia NPP — has been under Russian occupation since March 4, 2022.
The IAEA mission has been working at the ZNPP since September 2022.
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