Members of an International Atomic Energy Agency inspection team stood in front of a hotel in Kyiv on Wednesday before departing for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors left Kyiv for the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant early Wednesday, pledging to establish a permanent mission there.
Director General
Rafael Grossi
said the delegation was finally moving after receiving explicit security guarantees from Russia and Ukraine.
“After six months of strenuous efforts, the IAEA is moving into the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,” Mr. Grossi said.
Asked whether it was the IAEA’s plan to establish a permanent mission at the 6.7-gigawatt complex perched along the front line of the Russia-Ukraine war, Mr. Grossi said: “Yes, we are going to do exactly that.”
Russian forces have occupied the plant, Europe’s largest, and stationed military equipment there, while Ukrainian workers continue to operate it, effectively at gunpoint, according to Ukrainian officials.
The IAEA’s mission, which will assess damage, check safety and security systems and evaluate staff conditions, is its most important since its Chernobyl operation in 1986, after a catastrophic accident spewed radioactive dust across Europe.
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