International Atomic Energy Agency plans to send a team to test the safety of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant. Such a statement made the IAEA Director General.

“I am working actively to agree, organize and head an IAEA-led International Mission to Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the biggest in Europe, to carry out essential nuclear safety, security and safeguards work at the site.

I have taken note of the appeal by the Ukrainian government. In it, Ukraine calls on “the IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi and the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to redouble their efforts to find ways of liberating the ZNPP from Russian invaders as soon as possible, return it under the full control of Ukraine, restore station`s security and elaborate effective modalities for dispatching to the ZNPP international experts’ mission under the auspices of the IAEA / UN.”

We are developing the modalities to dispatch such a mission; other considerations should not prevent this essential international mission from taking place.

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya NPP site remains under the control of the Russian forces there. I have repeatedly expressed my grave concern at the extremely stressful and challenging working conditions under which Ukrainian management and staff are operating the plant”, - reads the statement of Rafael Grossi.