Grossi: Renewed shelling at Ukraine nuclear plant

Описание: (28 Mar 2023)
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Dnipro, Ukraine - 28 March 2023
1. Various of Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi talking to AP journalists
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General:
"We had new, renewed episodes of shelling at the plant and also a complete cut off of the external power supply to the plant, which was on emergency mode more than once. So all of this creates a situation and exacerbates, I would say, our fears about the possibility of a nuclear accident there."
5. Various of Grossi talking to AP journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General:
"I felt it was important to return here to consolidate the presence of the IAEA, which is indispensable, to provide technical assistance of nuclear safety and security, to give an objective, impartial impression of what is really happening here."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General:
"There is an increased level of combat, active combat. And so, a bit north to Zaporizhzhia and also closer. My teams there report daily about the attacks, the sound of heavy weaponry. This is practically constant."
9. Various of Grossi talking to AP journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General:
"This proposal is about preventing a nuclear accident. It is not to create any situation which may have a military advantage or disadvantage or a legitimization of the situation. So I have to walk this fine line talking to both, trying to make it so that both understand very well that a radiological accident you can imagine a few miles from here, where we are talking, all these important cities in panic because of this on top of the war, here and also on the Russian side would be extremely serious and it's something that we really need to avoid."
11. Various of Grossi talking to AP journalists
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General:
"Obviously I need a political commitment, a political decision. And in this case, what I want to stress is that what they would be agreeing is on the protection of the plant. They are not agreeing with each other. They are agreeing with the IAEA. They are agreeing with nuclear safety and security."
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General:
"This should make an agreement possible, not impossible, not utopian, not something for which we should be waiting for months and months on end. Until there is hopefully because we really want this war to end tomorrow if possible. But in the absence of that, we need to ensure, as I was saying, that there is no radiological accident, major catastrophic accident in Europe."
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STORYLINE:
Fighting has intensified near a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that is Europe’s largest, further increasing the possibility of a war-related nuclear accident, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday.

But there was also a hint of optimism, with IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi saying he believed reaching an agreement with the two sides on protecting the plant and so preventing a nuclear disaster was “close.”


He met Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and said he would “most probably” head to Russia in the coming days.












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