Go to the mediabank IAEA mission vehicles on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. File photoVLADIVOSTOK, Sep 7Rosatom expresses its deepest respect for the IAEA mission that visited the Zaporizhia NPP, courage was shown by all its participants — from the head of the agency Rafael Grossi to the driver of the car, said Aleksey Likhachev, director general of the Russian nuclear state corporation. , its leader (Rafael) Grossi, because it was extremely difficult to implement this idea of a trip to the Zaporozhye station,» Likhachev said Wednesday on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel as part of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF). «It's not just a matter of determination here. , but also in personal courage. They showed it all — from the general director to the driver of this delegation, «the head of Rosatom emphasized. According to him, two IAEA specialists continue to work at the ZNPP, directly exercising control and interaction with Ukrainian and Russian specialists in this matter. Last week, an IAEA mission headed by the Director General Rafael Grossi. The head of the delegation of «Rosatom» and employees of the Zaporizhzhya NPP led the delegation of the IAEA through its territory and showed the sections of the station that were damaged during the shelling of Ukrainian troops. As Mikhail Ulyanov, permanent representative of the Russian Federation to international organizations in Vienna, told RIA Novosti, two IAEA employees will remain at the Zaporozhye NPP on a permanent basis. The Zaporozhye NPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper near the city of Energodar. This is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity — the plant has six power units with a capacity of 1 gigawatt each. Since March, it has been under the protection of the Russian military. The Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that this step was justified in order to avoid leakage of nuclear and radioactive materials. The Ukrainian military continues to regularly shell Energodar and the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP adjacent to the city. The WEF takes place on September 5-8 on the campus of the Far Eastern Federal University on Russky Island in Vladivostok. RIA Novosti is the forum's general media partner.
Rosatom to support IAEA mission members remaining at ZNPP
