A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency has so far found no mines on the roofs of the occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. However, it could not inspect all reactor blocks.
Observers from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have so far not found any explosive devices on the roofs of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant – but they have not yet been able to examine all the reactor blocks.
For the first time, the IAEA team was allowed to inspect the roofs of the nuclear power plant occupied by Russia, as the organization explained in Vienna. According to IAEA boss Rafael Grossi, this was apparently only a partial inspection: the team was only able to inspect the roofs of blocks 3 and 4 and the turbine halls. The power plant has a total of six reactor blocks. Grossi also demanded access to the remaining roofs.
At the end of July, the Ukrainian military intelligence service SBU announced that Russia had mined the nuclear power plant. Moscow rejected this. Grossi emphasized that there are still mines elsewhere on the nuclear power plant site. They were discovered in July, but no more have been added since then. These mines did not pose a threat to nuclear safety.
According to the IAEA, the cooling water situation is good
For the time being, the cooling water situation is not a problem from the IAEA’s point of view. “There is enough water for many months,” says the report. The nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe. It drew its cooling water from the Kachowka reservoir, which drained away due to the destruction of the dam in early June and no longer exists.