2023-07-05 18:35:00
L’International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) has carried out inspections in “sections” of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, without having found any placement of explosives for the time being. However, the organization is asking the Russian military authorities for “access” to the entire facility, in particular to the roof of the reactors number 3 and 4where, as the Ukrainian military authorities had claimed on the eve, the Russian occupying forces would have placed bombs about to detonate.
“The experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency present at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in recent days and weeks have inspected part of the facilities – including some sections of the perimeter of the large cooling pool – and have carried out regular walkthroughs of the facilities. lations, not observed until now no indication visible of mines or explosives”, declared the general director, the Argentine Rafael Grossi.
“Additional Access”
The senior official took the opportunity to ask the Russian side “additional access» so that your organization can certify the absence of mines or explosives in the entire site. “In particular – says Grossi – the access to the roofs of the reactors 3 i 4, as well as access to “the turbine rooms” and “some sections of the plant’s cooling system”. Grossi has insisted on the need for IAEA inspectors to have unlimited movements. “With the increase of military tension … our experts must be able to verify the facts on the ground; your information objective i independent it should help to clarify the current situation”, warned the person in charge, before confirming the existence of “accusations and counter-accusations”.
The exchange of accusations between Kyiv and Moscow has increased international concern that an incident similar to the explosion of the presa de Nova Kakhovka and, therefore, a radioactive leak that could contaminate vast stretches of Ukrainian and European territory. On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Army warned, in a statement, of the possibility of a false flag attack against the plant by Russian forces and their intention to accuse Ukraine of it: “Similar objects similar to explosives they have been placed on the roofs of reactors 3 and 4″. “Its detonation should not damage the generators, but it has the effect of bombings from the Ukrainian side”, this source continued, adding that Russia would spread misinformation “with the incident”.
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Precisely, from Moscow, Renat Karchaacounselor of Rosatomthe Russian Atomic Energy Agency, which in turn has taken over control of the plant, had reported an imminent “attack” on the plant “at night, in complete darkness.”
Given the proximity of the fighting, in a session before the UN Security Council that took place on May 30, the director general from the IAEA has established “five basic principles” for the protection of the plant, which include the need for no attacks “from and against the plant”, and for the facility not to become “a warehouse or base for heavy weapons, such as grenade launchers, artillery systems, ammunition and tanks». On numerous occasions after the start of the Russian invasion, the security of the facility has been compromised, and cuts in the electrical supply due to the bombings they have been current currency.
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