IAEA mission plans to arrive at Zaporizhzhia NPP next week – official

The visit of the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency to the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant is planned for next week. Currently, the occupiers are artificially creating all the conditions so that the IAEA does not reach the plant.

Lana Zerkal, an adviser to Ukraine's Minister of Energy, stated this on the air of Radio NV.

"Next week, the visit of the IAEA mission is planned, and now all the logistical routes are being decided, how they will get there. Even though the russians agreed that the mission would go through the territory of Ukraine, they are artificially now creating all the conditions so that the mission does not reach the object given the situation around it," Zerkal said.

She added that the primary purpose of the visit of the IAEA mission was to monitor the situation at the station and take the necessary measures to protect Europe and the whole world from a possible disaster.

Before that, Bloomberg wrote, citing sources, that the IAEA is preparing for a mission and wants to visit the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in occupied Enerhodar by September 5.

"The IAEA wants to visit the plant before Sept. 5, when a two-week international mission was already scheduled to take place to examine safety systems at Europe's biggest nuclear power station," the report says.

"An impending International Atomic Energy Agency visit to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine will include security and safety authorities, in addition to the officials in charge of accounting for nuclear material at the site, according to two diplomats with knowledge of the visit who asked not to be identified in exchange for discussing the plans," Bloomberg reports.

It is noted that even before the start of a full-scale war, the IAEA planned to visit the Zaporizhia NPP for two weeks in September 2022. It was supposed to be the first inspection in the last 16 years.

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