TIMELINE: UN nuclear boss to visit Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Wednesday

Record ID: 1717489

  • Title: TIMELINE: UN nuclear boss to visit Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Wednesday
  • Date: 21st August 2022
  • Summary: KYIV, UKRAINE (FILE - AUGUST 9, 2022) (REUTERS) KOTIN SHOWING A PAINTING OF ZAPORIZHZHIA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT AND THERMAL POWER STATION International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi said on October 6 that the U.N. nuclear watchdog considered the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to be a Ukrainian facility despite the annexations. KYIV, UKRAINE (FILE - OCTOBER 6, 2022) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY DIRECTOR-GENERAL, RAFAEL GROSSI, SAYING: "I think this is a matter that has to do with international law. We are here in a conflict, we are here in a war. We want this war to stop. The war should stop immediately, and of course the position of the IAEA is that this facility is a Ukrainian facility. But I don’t get into comments about military developments.”
  • Embargoed: 4th September 2022 08:13
  • Keywords: IAEA Maxar Technologies. Russia Ukraine United Nations Vladimir Putin Volodymyr Zelenskiy Zaporizhzhia captured by Russia nuclear power plant
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  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA00V968120082022RP1
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  • Story Text: Contains profane language
    The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday (28 March) his attempt to broker a deal to protect Ukraine's Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was still alive, and that he was adjusting the proposals to seek a breakthrough.
    Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, spoke to Reuters a day before he is expected to travel to Europe's largest nuclear power station in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region of southeastern Ukraine.
    Grossi has been pushing for a safety zone to be created at the plant to prevent a possible nuclear disaster as Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of shelling the site of the power station since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year.
    The contours of the proposed deal have not been made public.
    Diplomats say Grossi's latest proposal no longer includes a defined radius around the plant to mark the zone.
    Ukraine does not want a deal that will in effect recognise or allow a Russian military presence at the plant. Other elements of Grossi's plan include no firing at or from the plant, and the removal of heavy weapons.
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