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05 Aug

No explosives found on rooftops of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant: IAEA

Vienna, Aug 5, The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that its experts had found no mines or explosives on the rooftops of two reactor units and turbine halls at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in a statement on Friday said that "following repeated requests", the agency's expert team was given "unimpeded access" on Thursday afternoon to the rooftops of Unit 3 and Unit 4 reactor buildings at the Zaporizhzhia plant in Ukraine and "could also clearly view the rooftops of the turbine halls". Grossi said the expert team would continue its requests to…

08 Jul

IAEA excludes ‘visible indications of mines or explosives’ at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuke plant

Vienna, July 8, The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has excluded "any visible indications of mines or explosives" at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine, the UN nuclear watchdog's chief said. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said in a statement on Friday that its experts had received additional access, reports Xinhua news agency. They have inspected parts of the facility and continued to conduct regular walkdowns across the site in recent days and weeks. "The IAEA experts ... were yesterday (Thursday) also able to check a wider section of the perimeter of the ZNPP's large cooling pond than…

08 Jul

IAEA chief arrives in S.Korea to discuss Fukushima water discharge report

Seoul, July 8, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi arrived in South Korea on Saturday to explain the analysis of the UN watchdog's safety review of Japan's planned release of treated radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Grossi was met by a group of angry protesters at Seoul's Gimpo airport, Yonhap News Agency reported on Saturday. Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the airport's VIP exit, with some of them loudly chanting slogans like "Grossi, go home", "Oppose marine dumping" and "Leave Korea, Grossi". They occasionally clashed physically with the policemen who were…

24 Jun

IAEA, Russia’s Rosatom discuss nuclear safety at Zaporizhzhia in new consultations

Moscow, June 24 (IANS) General Director of Russia's Rosatom State Corporation Alexey Likhachev discussed the current nuclear safety situation around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) with the IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi in Russia's Kaliningrad. During the discussion, both delegations addressed issues raised by Grossi at the UN Security Council briefing on May 30, in which the official discussed the security situation at the nuclear facility, Rosatom said on Friday in a statement. Likhachev emphasised that the Russian side "expects the IAEA Secretariat to take specific steps to prevent strikes by the Ukrainian armed forces both on the ZNPP and on…