The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency admits his concern about the development of the war in Ukraine and says that, in the case of the Zaporizhzhia plant, the situation is strange.
Speaking in Brussels, at a hearing in the European Parliament, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said that it is at the Zaporizhzhia plant that the most worrying situation occurs.
“We had severe cases of direct bombing at the nuclear facility, especially towards the end of the summer, and then in November we had two more days of direct bombing, crazy as it sounds, that’s what happened,” Grossi reported, adding that later to the last incident “there was a fire in the nuclear reactors which, fortunately, did not cause any accident”.
“Zaporizhzhia is, of course, the flash point, as it is in occupied territory and has this rather strange situation of being a Ukrainian facility in Russian-controlled territory administered by Russians, but operated by Ukrainians,” he described.
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency expects improvements on the ground and leaves a warning: “a nuclear accident will have very bad consequences for everyone and it must be avoided by all means”, that is, “whatever side of the conflict that people could be in, a nuclear accident does not benefit anyone.
But Rafael Grossi acknowledges that the risk tends to increase in the coming months, as the war intensifies.
“There is a pretty clear indication of the possibility of increased military activity towards the end of winter and perhaps into the beginning of spring, which naturally raises our level of concern in terms of the consequences this could have on infrastructure. nuclear”. . “, he said, lamenting that” the situation in all of Ukraine, in military terms, is not improving.
Source: TSF
