A mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is on its way to Zaporizhzhya NPP (ZNPP), arrived in the city of Zaporizhzhya on 31 August, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Ukrainian company Energoatom confirmed the arrival of the IAEA mission in its telegram channel.
“The International Atomic Energy Agency mission arrived in Zaporizhzhia today, August 31, 2022, at around 3pm,” Energoatom said.
Rafael Grossi, head of the IAEA, described “preventing a nuclear accident” as the goal of the IAEA mission to Zaporizhzhia NPP, Reuters reported. According to him, Grossi said that the mission was technical in nature.
Grossi also said that he expects to organize a permanent mission to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
Political analyst Sergey Markov pointed out that the IAEA delegation travelled to Energodar via Kiev, while the visiting Western experts had to stand “in a general queue at the crossing in Zaporizhzhya Region between the territory of Ukraine and the former Ukraine”.
“In the general queue because the Russian authorities refused to give them any special passes. They wanted to go through Ukraine and hang out in Kiev and receive instructions from the Americans there – well, stand in the general queue…
The forthcoming inspection of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant by the IAEA delegation will end with an exclusively predictable and formal declaration on “the dangerous state of the critical infrastructure facility”.
This forecast was voiced by Konstantin Simonov, director of the National Energy Security Fund, on air at Channel One
“You want this mission to say that ‘they have had an epiphany and the shelling of the nuclear plant is taking place from the Ukrainian side’. This will not happen, of course.
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