প্রকাশ: 03/08/2022
The situation is "volatile" at Europe's largest
nuclear power plant, which fell under Russian control in March during Moscow's
invasion of Ukraine, the head of the international nuclear agency said Tuesday.
Located on the Dnipro river in southeastern Ukraine, the
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been under Russian control since the early weeks
of Moscow's invasion, though it is still being operated by Ukrainian staff.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been
trying to send a mission there.
"The situation is really a volatile one," IAEA
chief Rafael Grossi told a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York,
where a conference of the 191 signatories of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons is being held.
"Every principle of safety has been violated one way or
the other. And we cannot allow that from continuing," he said.
At the start of the conference Monday, he said that the
situation at Zaporizhzhia is growing "more perilous by the day."
His organization has been trying for weeks to send a team to
inspect the plant. Ukraine has so far rejected the efforts, which it says would
legitimize Russia's occupation of the site in the eyes of the international
community.
"Going there is a very complex thing, because it
requires the understanding and cooperation of a number of actors,"
particularly Moscow and Kyiv, as well as the backing of the United Nations
since the plant is in a war zone, Grossi explained.
"I'm trying to put a mission back together to go there
as soon as I can."
On Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused
Moscow of using the plant as a "military base to fire at Ukrainians,
knowing that they can't and won't shoot back because they might accidentally
strike a nuclear... reactor or highly radioactive waste in storage."
"That brings the notion of having a human shield to an
entirely different and horrific level," he said.
The Zaporizhzhia region where the plant is located is
largely under Russian control, and Moscow-backed separatists have said they are
planning to stage a referendum on joining Russia this year.
– BSS/AFP
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