IAEA finds no evidence of an atomic ‘dirty bomb’ in Ukraine

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported this Thursday that its inspectors have found no traces that in Ukraine tried to make a dirty atomic bombafter inspecting three specific places in the attacked country.

”Our technical and scientific evaluation of the results we have so far did not show any signs of undeclared nuclear activities and materials at these three locations,” said in a statement the director general of the IAEA, Raphael Grossi.

He recalled that in recent days, experts from the nuclear agency of the UN who directs have carried, and completed, “verification activities on the ground in three places in Ukraine, at the request of the Government of this country”.

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According to Grossi, the inspectors were able to carry out “all the activities that the IAEA had planned to carry out and had unlimited access to the places”.

The note reminds that the “Ukrainian written requests for the IAEA sending teams of inspectors were issued after the Russian Federation made allegations about the activities at the three locations.”

Those sites inspected were the Nuclear Research Institute in kyiv, the Eastern Mining and Processing Plant in Zhovti Kody and the Production Association of the Pivdennyi Machine-Building Plant in Dnipro. IAEA.

After receiving the request, “immediately dispatched inspectors to all three locations to perform their indispensable technical and independent on-the-ground fact-checking role”Grossi recalled.

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He stressed that international experts traveled to those places “in a few days” Y “they carried out their safeguards activities (controls), in difficult circumstances during the current conflict in Ukraine”.

In addition, they collected environmental samples to be analyzed in the Vienna-based agency’s laboratories.

Environmental sampling is a safeguard measure commonly used with ultra-sensitive analytical techniques, which can provide information on past and current activities related to the handling of nuclear materials, the note states.

”Based on the evaluation of the results available to date and on the information provided by Ukraine, The agency found no evidence of undeclared nuclear activities and materials at the sites. stated the CEO.

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He added that later, and “as soon as possible”, the IAEA will report “on the results of environmental sampling”.

Grossi stressed that the body continues “ready to carry out more such verification activities in Ukraine to check for the absence of undeclared activities and materials and thus deter any misuse of them.”

The Russian Government had denounced that Ukraine was trying to create and use a “dirty bomb” atomic bomb on its own territory to blame Moscow for using weapons of mass destruction and provoke a harsh response from the West, an accusation that Kyiv has rejected.

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Also known as a radiological weapon, the dirty bomb is a conventional explosive, such as dynamite, enriched with radioactive material that spreads when the explosive explodes, following a doctrine of use similar to that of chemical weapons.

Source: Elcomercio

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