CEO Raphael Grosssey plans to visit the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant for the next two weeks. He reported that since the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine, IAEA has already conducted 102 missions, including three at the Zaporozhye NPP, which he personally managed. Grossi also declared his intention to hold another mission for the ZPP in the next two weeks.
In his speech before the UN Security Council, he noted that this is the first war in history, where the objects of the Great Nuclear Energy Program became the target of hostile attacks. This applies to five Ukrainian NPPs and other objects that were subjected to direct shelling.
Grossi stressed that the situation with nuclear security at the ZPP is extremely vulnerable. Since the middle of 2022, six of the station reactors have been stopped, five of them are in cold stop mode and one in hot mode.
Grossi expressed serious indifferent to the fact that the Russian military captured the Zaporozhye NPP, and the station is systematically fired, violating the principles of nuclear security. He stressed that the risk of a major nuclear accident remains extremely real, especially with the mines identified by the IAEA experts on the perimeter of the station.
