“The Ministry of Energy adds that the parties agreed on the schedule of visits. The mission, as before, will be held alternately at the designated objects”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The Agency reminds that the importance of the next IAEA mission to substations important for atomic energy was discussed by Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko and IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi during an extraordinary meeting of the Agency’s Board of Directors, which was held at the initiative of Ukraine.
“I thank Rafael Grossi and the Agency’s experts for effective cooperation and the decision to continue the mission. By joint efforts, we must prevent the implementation of the worst scenarios for nuclear and radiation safety, which Russia exposes us to,” Galushchenko said in his comments.
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The Ministry of Energy adds that the parties agreed on the schedule of visits. The mission, as before, will be held alternately at the designated objects.
On December 12, the Board of Directors of the International Atomic Energy Agency approved the resolution prepared by Ukraine after the December 10 drone attack on a vehicle of this UN agency, which was on its way to rotate the personnel of the monitoring mission at the Zaporizhia NPP. The Council, in particular, called on “all member states to continue to provide political, financial and technical support and in-kind support to strengthen the IAEA’s technical assistance and monitoring activities in Ukraine.”
A permanent monitoring group has been working at the Zaporizhia NPP occupied by the Russian military since September 2022.
At the same time, permanent monitoring missions of the IAEA began their activities at the Chernobyl, Rivne, South Ukrainian and Khmelnytsky nuclear plants in January 2023.