Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant: IAEA lost access to monitoring systems
Anastasiya Kalatur – Thursday, 10 March 2022, 06:33
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has lost access to systems for monitoring nuclear materials in the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
Source: Mariano Grossi, Director General of the IAEA, in a press release
According to the IAEA: "the IAEA in recent days had lost remote data transmission from its safeguarding systems installed to monitor nuclear material at the Chornobyl NPP and another Ukrainian nuclear power plant now controlled by Russian forces, the Zaporizhzhya NPP."
Background: On the night of 3 March, Russian troops entered the territory of the Zaporizhzhya power plant. Their shooting resulted in a fire, which the Ukrainian rescue services were only allowed to extinguish in the early morning of 4 March. The occupying forces assumed control of the power plant. The power plant staff were allowed to continue working, but the communication between the power plant management and the Ukrainian energy supplier Energoatom was severed
