Russia's seizure of the Chernobyl nuclear plant was 'absolutely abnormal' and 'very dangerous,' the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says. His remarks come on the 36th anniversary of the nuclear disaster there.
for several days after power lines were damaged. IAEA also lost access to data from systems it uses to monitor conditions at the plant.for around 600 hours before they were allowed to leaveGrossi's visit coincided with the 36th anniversary of the nuclear disaster. He said he does not believe the plant is close to suffering a similar accident, but that Russia's occupation elevated the risk of mismanagement and a possible incident.
"I don't know if we were very close to disaster, but the situation was absolutely abnormal and very, very dangerous," Grossi said, according to the Times. "In this case, what we had was a nuclear safety situation that was not normal, that could have developed into an accident," he added, per a video released by the IAEA.
"The first credit must go to the operators, to these people here, because they carried on their work in spite of all the difficulties, in spite of the stress, in spite of the fact that they could not be working normally."The IAEA mission led by Grossi went to Ukraine to deliver radiation monitoring equipment and assess radiation levels around the plant and the exclusion zone near it.
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