IAEA doesn’t have access to ZNPP monitoring systems

The IAEA has lost access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant's nuclear monitoring systems

IAEA Director announced this General Rafael Mariano Grossi, Rubryka reports.

He noted that "in recent days, the IAEA has stopped receiving remote data from safeguards systems set up to monitor nuclear material at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and another Ukrainian nuclear power plant currently under Russian control, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant."

Director-General Grossi said that as part of his new initiative on the situation in Ukraine, he was going to Antalya at the invitation of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.

"At the meetings there, I hope to make progress on the urgent issue of security and physical security of Ukraine's nuclear facilities. We need to act immediately," he said.

To recap, on March 4, the Russian military broke into the territory of the Zaporizhzhia NPP.

Due to the shelling, a fire broke out there, which Ukrainian rescuers were still allowed to put out.

The occupiers took control of ZNPP. The personnel was allowed to continue working, and the contact of the NPP management with the Ukrainian Energoatom was blocked.