Posted on 08/31/2022 3:41:59 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Russian forces are reportedly delaying international nuclear safety officials from entering the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
Shelling on multiple days last week had hit an area of the plant located just 100 meters or so from the reactor buildings.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), repeatedly called for an IAEA mission to the plant so experts can assess the damage and evaluate working conditions of the Ukrainian staff continuing to keep the facility operational.
Earlier on Wednesday, an IAEA team set off from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Reuters reporting the team were traveling in a convoy of vehicles according to a witness.
Grossi is understood to be leading the mission.
Vladimir Rogov, Russian-appointed regional official for Zaporizhzhia, wrote on Telegram the IAEA team "will stand in line" in order to enter the area and "will not be given special passes"
Yevhen Balitsky, described by Russia's TASS news agency as head of the "military-civilian administration" of Zaporizhzhia, told state-owned Russia-24 TV news: "We were asked to speed it up. I said no, let them stand in line like everyone else … let them talk to people in queues."
It is unclear how long the queues will take to clear or for how long the IAEA team will be waiting.
Grossi will likely be anxious to enter the plant due to the reported damage sustained by recent shelling but also due to power cuts that occurred on August 25. Power was eventually restored, but Grossi said it highlighted the potential vulnerability of the major nuclear power plant.
Power plants rely on a constant flow of electricity to power their safety systems needed during an emergency.
Another concern is the wellbeing of the Ukrainian staff who are still working to keep the plant running safely.
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The correct question is DID Russia deny them access?
Sorry, you need to find a source other than Newsweek. They just post whatever Uke propaganda puts out.
Leftwing sites that shill for the Biden regime cannot be trusted to be honest. T
Try again.
The Ruskies don’t want the IAEA team to see all of the artillery on the grounds of the nuclear power plant.
DUH!
Russians stalling so that they kind hide their stuff and to bring in happy Russian “workers” to tell IAEA that everything is A-OK!
Yes. Russian officials made it clear - they don’t want the IAEA because they are coming from Kyiv, Ukraine. Russia’s demand is that they visit the plant by going around and through Russia and Russian-occupied (they call it “liberated”) territory.
But it really is just a game. Putin doesn’t want the world to see his garbage -
That probably isn’t far from reality.
Short answer-—YES!
Hidden under water lines, power lines, and structures right at the plant facilities.
They were actually denied permission to enter the nuclear facilities in Iran. No waiting line, just go away.
Russian schmucks
These BS narratives multiply like stooges after the rain. In fact Russia was the first to call the UN over this.
Earlier someone inside had send video of Russian equipment, which I had posted. Also, Ukrainians military, reportedly all ranks, running the facility have been abused.
Many of the people old enough to have done the air raid drills in school diving under their wooden desks are dead.
The ones still alive have made a nest here. Their minds are so old and brittle they can’t keep up with modern times. And they don’t, they live in old black and white John Wayne movies and point fingers at those who don’t. It’s quite a spectacle.
U.N. Team Arrives in Zaporizhzhia Ahead of Nuclear-Plant Inspection
United Nations inspectors arrived in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday ahead of an inspection of the nearby Russian-occupied nuclear-power plant, pledging to establish a permanent mission at the southern Ukrainian facility amid fears that fighting in the area could lead to a nuclear disaster.
“The main work begins tomorrow,” said Rafael Grossi, the director general of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, who is leading the mission. The plant is located in the town of Enerhodar, about 75 miles from Zaporizhzhia. The team was expected to attempt to cross front lines to enter the plant on Thursday.
Asked whether inspectors would be able to speak freely to workers at the plant, Mr. Grossi said: “We are a team of very experienced people. We will have a pretty good idea of what is going on.”
For those who say Russia will NOT let them come from Kiev, they have already come into Russian-occupied territory, and so far, have not been stopped.
I trust News “Weak” just about as much as the NYT and would consider Reuters a better choice. Of course, if IAEA would stay there on a permanent basis, it would put a crimp in Ukraine shelling this power plant.
MOSCOW, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Russia welcomes the idea that IAEA experts could stay at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on a permanent basis, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s representative to the international organisations in Vienna, said on Wednesday.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said the agency hoped to set up a permanent mission at the plant. U.N. nuclear inspectors set off for the plant earlier on Wednesday.
“In fact Russia was the first to call the UN over this.”
No.
March 3, 2022, Russian forces attacked the plant in the early hours of Friday, setting an adjacent five-story training facility on fire. Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest of its kind in Europe, was seized by Russian forces on Friday, after an attack that started a fire close to one of its six reactors.
The artillery attack on the huge plant in the south-east of the country was condemned around the world, and denounced as a war crime by Ukraine and the US embassy in Kyiv.
No release of radiation was reported, but Ukrainian officials said workers had not been able to check all the safety infrastructure in the wake of the attack.
Kotin said Russian forces had broken through a Ukrainian barricade on Thursday night with 100 armoured vehicles, and had begun shelling the plant. He said they targeted administrative buildings and the checkpoint at the entrance until they won control of the site.
The Zaporizhzhia plant in south-eastern Ukraine – which houses six of the country’s 15 nuclear reactors – as well as the neighbouring town of Energodar, have been surrounded by Russian troops since the beginning of the week.
CROWDS OF LOCAL PEOPLE had stood in the road leading up to the plant, forming a human barrier to the invading force.
ALSO,
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/29/1119925635/ukraine-russia-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-interview
U.N. Team Arrives in Zaporizhzhia Ahead of Nuclear-Plant Inspection
KYIV, Ukraine—United Nations inspectors arrived in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday ahead of an inspection of the nearby Russian-occupied nuclear-power plant, pledging to establish a permanent mission at the southern Ukrainian facility amid fears that fighting in the area could lead to a nuclear disaster.
“The main work begins tomorrow,” said Rafael Grossi, the director general of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, who is leading the mission. The plant is located in the town of Enerhodar, about 75 miles from Zaporizhzhia. The team was expected to attempt to cross front lines to enter the plant on Thursday.
Asked whether inspectors would be able to speak freely to workers at the plant, Mr. Grossi said: “We are a team of very experienced people. We will have a pretty good idea of what is going on.”
Russian forces have occupied the plant, Europe’s largest, and stationed military equipment there since the early stages of the war, while Ukrainian workers continue to operate it, effectively at gunpoint, according to Ukrainian officials.
The plant has suffered heavy shelling in recent weeks that has damaged its laboratory and chemical facilities, and nearby fires temporarily disconnected it from the country’s power grid. Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other for the strikes, trading opposing narratives about a plant that Russia has largely closed off from the world since its capture.
It is bull crap. The station was captured without a fight. Then the Ukrainian groups squatted in the nearby building, opened fire on the Russian patrol and started a fire in the building. Then propaganda spinned it as a battle at the station and sold the smoke from fire as “nuclear disaster”.
It was half a year ago though. Now the situation is different.
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