IAEA Chief To Visit Ukraine Nuke Plant Next Week

Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will travel anew to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine next week, Bloomberg reported.

Photo Insert: IAEA director, Rafael Mariano Grossi

Grossi plans to “assess first-hand the serious nuclear safety and security situation at the facility,” occupied by Russia since the earliest days of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Grossi said he wants “to see for myself how the situation has evolved since September, and to talk to those operating the facility in these unprecedented and very difficult circumstances.”

The IAEA has had expert teams on-site at Zaporizhzhia since that initial visit, yet Grossi described the situation there as “still precarious.”

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