IAEA Team Stays On at War-Struck Atomic Plant to Probe Damage
- Safety at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant was repeatedly violated
- IAEA’s Grossi describes harrowing trip across war’s frontline
Members of the IAEA inspection mission near Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Sept. 1.
Photographer: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images
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International monitors remaining at a Russian-occupied atomic plant in Ukraine are staying in order to independently evaluate how continued military attacks against the facility risk a nuclear accident.
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors arrived at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after a harrowing journey across the frontline separating Ukrainian and Russian forces. The sounds of heavy machine-gun fire, artillery and mortars accompanied them during the crossing, agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said late Thursday.