Aug 04,2022:The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has appealed for access to a Ukrainian nuclear power plant now occupied by Russian forces to determine whether it was a source of danger.
Contact with Europe’s largest nuclear plant, which is in Zaporizhzhia and is being operated by Ukrainian technicians, was “fragile” and communications did not function every day, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi told Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger.
A Russian-installed official in Ukraine said on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces had repeatedly used Western arms to attack the plant, which has two of six reactors operating and has been the subject of repeated warnings from Ukraine, the West and Russia.
On Tuesday, Grossi told The Associated Press news agency that the plant “is completely out of control” and that the supply chain of equipment and spare parts has been interrupted “so we are not sure the plant is getting all it needs”.
