UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will visit the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine next week to assess the serious situation there, he announced on Saturday (Mar 25). Grossi is pressing for a security zone to be erected around what is Europe's largest nuclear power plant, with
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will visit the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine next week to assess the serious situation there, he announced on Saturday .
It will be his second visit. Last September he went there and established a permanent presence of IAEA experts. "The situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is still precarious," Grossi said in the statement, saying he wanted"to assess first-hand the serious nuclear safety and security situation at the facility".
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