Director General of the IAEA will lead the mission at the Zaporizhzhia NPP after the dam was blown up
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, will lead the organization’s next mission at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant after Russia blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant.
Grossi announced this after a conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, writes “Europeyska Pravda”.
“After the alarming events related to the collapse of the Kakhovskaya HPP dam, next week I will lead the next rotation of our IAEA Support and Assistance Mission at the Zaporizhzhia NPP with a reinforced team,” the IAEA Director General wrote on Twitter.
We will remind, on the morning of June 6, the Operational Command “South” reported that the Russian occupiers blew up the Kakhovskaya HPP, later the regional military administration confirmed this information. Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the Kherson OVA, reported that the evacuation of the local population from dangerous areas has begun.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, previously called Russia’s detonation of the Kakhovskaya HPP a terrible war crime and, probably, the biggest man-made disaster in Europe in recent decades. The incident was condemned by a number of foreign leaders and European officials.
The Kakhov reservoir used to supply the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant with water for the cooling pond of nuclear reactors. The Ukrainian “Energoatom” claims that the decrease in the water level of the reservoir should not affect the state of safety of the ZNPP, provided that safety measures are implemented and if all power units of the ZNPP will be in a “stop” state.
The IAEA also said that at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant no “imminent risk to nuclear safety” after the destruction of the Kakhovskaya HPP.
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