Grossi urged to refrain from any actions that violate the IAEA principles to prevent a nuclear accident at ZNPP
Kyiv • UNN
The IAEA Director General has called for maximum military restraint and full compliance with five specific principles to prevent a nuclear accident and ensure the integrity of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after a series of drone attacks significantly increased the risk.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi called for refraining from any actions that violate the IAEA's five specific principles to prevent a nuclear accident and ensure the integrity of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. This was reported by the IAEA press service following a meeting at its headquarters in Vienna on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, on April 11, UNN reports.
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"Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi today called for maximum military restraint and full observance of the five concrete principles for protecting Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), days after a series of drone attacks had "significantly" increased the risk of a nuclear accident at the site," the statement said.
Grossi noted that it is crucial to make sure that "these reckless attacks do not mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war."
I firmly appeal to military decision makers to abstain from any action violating the IAEA’s five concrete principles to prevent a nuclear accident and ensure the integrity of the plant and I urge the international community actively to work towards a de-escalation of what is a very serious situation
The IAEA emphasized that this is the first time since November 2012 that ZNPP has been directly hit in military operations.
It is also noted that the IAEA experts have conducted walkdowns across the site over the past week, visiting the main control rooms of the six reactor units, the off-site radiation monitoring laboratory, as well as the site’s radioactive waste storage facility.
However, they were reportedly not granted access to parts of the turbine hall of unit 2 when they went to this reactor, nor to some parts of the waste facility, which meant they were not able to verify its current status.
"In these extremely challenging circumstances, the presence of IAEA experts at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant is more important than ever. Their impartial and technical work enables us to inform the world about events there in an independent and timely manner. In order to carry out these crucial tasks, they need prompt and unrestricted access to all areas that are important for nuclear safety and security," Grossi emphasized.
Recall
On April 5-9, Zaporizhzhia NPP was attacked by drones. The area of the cargo port and nitrogen-oxygen station, the canteen, the dome of the sixth power unit and the ZNPP training center were hit.
On April 7, a drone exploded on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia NPP. On April 9, IAEA experts recorded another drone strike on the territory of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and there was no threat to the nuclear facility.
