IAEA “concerned” about bombings that “endanger” Chernobyl personnel

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on Thursday night its “concern” after the authorities ukrainian they would have informed him of bombings in the city where the personnel of the Chernobyl plant live.

“Ukraine informed the IAEA that Russian troops were shelling Ukrainian checkpoints” in the town of Slavútych, “endangering homes and families” of the nuclear power plant workers, according to a statement from that UN body, based in Vienna.

Its CEO, Rafael Grossi, “He expressed his concern about that event, which occurs just hours after the first rotation” of employees since the invasion began.

Russian forces took control of the plant on February 24. A hundred Ukrainian technicians continued to manage for almost four weeks, without being relieved, the daily operations at the radioactive waste facilities.

The UN agency also mentioned two forest fires near the plant, the scene of the worst nuclear catastrophe in history, in 1986.

Those fires do not pose “no major radiological concerns”noted the Ukrainian regulatory authority, a judgment shared by the experts of the IAEA.

An environmental analysis laboratory was “looted” and their equipment was stolen, the IAEA.

Since the beginning of the Russian military offensive, the head of the IAEA He has not ceased to warn of the dangers that the conflict entails, the first in that country, which has an extensive nuclear park of 15 reactors, in addition to Chernobyl.

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