
Director of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant Yuriy Chernichuk said that the presence of IAEA experts at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant remains appropriate, since the agency is the only independent source of information on the technical condition of the plant for the world community.
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Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and has been under the control of Russian forces since March 2022, but its staff remains predominantly Ukrainian. The IAEA periodically sends missions to the plant to assess nuclear safety.
The presence of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) remains appropriate. This was stated by station director Yuri Chernichuk in an interview with TASS.
“The fact that information about the technical condition of the station is conveyed quite truthfully to the world community in the agency’s press releases, I would probably like more, but I think that quite a lot of people who are outside our country read these press releases and draw some conclusions from them,” Chernichuk noted.
The director of Zaporizhia NPP assessed the presence of the IAEA at the plant as appropriate, noting that the international agency is currently the only independent source of information for the world community.
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The IAEA will continue to send expert missions to Zaporizhia NPP to monitor nuclear safety
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