War in Ukraine: No agreement on guarantees regarding the safety of nuclear facilities, says IAEA

Its Foreign Ministers Russia and her Of Ukraine did not provide the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with any guarantees for the protection of the Ukrainian nuclear facilities during yesterday’s (10/3) talks in Turkey, the IAEA director general said. Rafael Grossi.

Mr. Grossi met with them Sergei Lavrov and Dmitro Koulempathe heads of Russian and Ukrainian diplomacy, yesterday in Antalya.

However, he spoke of positive signs. “Ukraine and the Russian Federation want to cooperate with us, they agreed to cooperate with us”, he said leaving Vienna airport after his return. He added that he hopes the talks will continue.

With several Ukrainian nuclear facilities occupied, damaged or endangered in the two weeks since the Russian invasion began, Rafael Grossi addressed the issue. urgent call for urgent negotiations to ensure their safety, to avoid the risk of a nuclear accident.

Mr Grossi reiterated his concern over nuclear surveillance equipment at Chernobyl and Zaporizhia, where the IAEA has not had data for days. “What we have is actually a situation that is getting worse and we are worried”, he said. For Chernobyl, he said that it is very important to monitor the levels of radioactivity, while regarding the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, he stressed that it is not possible to transport specialized personnel and spare parts in order to carry out necessary maintenance work.

The connections do not concern the operational safety of the facilities, but the verification that the use of nuclear materials is done for exclusively peaceful purposes, he clarified, characterizing as a problem that the IAEA does not receive a continuous flow of data for this.

Source: News Beast

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