A senior Ukrainian official said the government was still awaiting a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and suggested the agency’s mission was “ineffective”.
“We don’t understand if everything is normal there in terms of safety, cooling the reactors, with the staff, if they understand the algorithms by which they work. We didn’t see all this in the report, and it proves that international institutions, unfortunately, are completely ineffective,” Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Cabinet of the President of Ukraine, told Ukrainian television on Monday.
Podolyak said there should be a “nuclear audit” at the plant, which included “a certain number of people who know nuclear physics and engineering technologies” working alongside Ukrainian officials.
While occupied by Russian forces, the plant is largely managed by Ukrainian technicians.
“There are Russian troops who do not understand what is happening there, they do not correctly assess the risks. But there are a certain number of our workers there who need some kind of protection, to have people from the international community on their side,” Podolyak said.
The weekend appears to have passed relatively quietly in the area around the plant, which has been experiencing persistent bombing for weeks, some of which has damaged the plant’s infrastructure, according to the IAEA.
On Friday, the agency’s director general, Rafael Grossi, said the organization knows “much more” about the state of the plant after his visit last week. A team of inspectors will have “continuous presence” at the plant, Grossi said.
Source: CNN Brasil
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