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Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are to be deployed to the Khmelnitsky, Rivne, South Ukraine and Chernobyl nuclear power plant sites in addition to those already at Zaporizhzhia, where efforts to bring in a protection zone continue.

Date: Saturday, 29 October 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-inspectors-to-be-based-in-more-Ukrainian-site

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says its staff's presence at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine is needed to help stabilise the nuclear safety and security situation.

Date: Tuesday, 09 August 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Increased-urgency-for-IAEA-mission-to-Zaporizhzhia

Ukraine told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 19 May that new wildfires in the area near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) did not pose a radioactive threat to people, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said. Ukraine said the gamma dose rate levels in the vicinity of the Chernobyl NPP were “not exceeding the reference levels”.

Date: Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschernobyl-wildfires-pose-no-radioactive-threat-9722986

Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 1 April that it was “analysing the possibility” of resuming regulatory control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, after Russian forces withdrew from the site, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.

Date: Tuesday, 05 April 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-director-general-concludes-meetings-in-ukraine-and-russia-9599472

Latest updates, 1 April: 

• Ukraine says Russian forces, who took control of Chernobyl on 24 February, have left and handed it back to Ukraine
• IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi holds talks in Kaliningrad with Russian officials about nuclear safety in Ukraine
• He says he will head an IAEA "assistance and support mission" mission to Chernobyl "as soon as possible"
• He said that the IAEA had agreed a safety framework, agreed separately with Ukraine and with Russia • The World Association of Nuclear Operators has transferred Ukraine's nuclear operator Energoatom from its Moscow to its Paris centre

Date: Saturday, 02 April 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine-says-Russian-forces-have-left-Chernobyl

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi is in Ukraine to "start delivering" the safety and security assistance Ukraine has requested for the country's nuclear facilities.

Date: Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-s-Grossi-in-Ukraine-for-nuclear-safety-talks

Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 19 March that Ukrainian engineers had repaired and reconnected one of three previously disconnected power lines linking the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to the electricity grid.

Date: Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-says-power-restored-to-zaporozhye-9564565

The head of Ukraine’s Energoatom told the International Atomic Energy Agency on Sunday that power could be restored to Chernobyl after workers fixed the damaged power line - but on Monday Ukraine's energy company reported it was damaged again "before the power supply was fully restored".

Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Efforts-continue-to-restore-power-to-Chernobyl

Safety group concerned about ‘factors that may challenge high standards of operation’ Rafael Grossi said he hopes to make progress on the urgent issue of ensuring the safety and security of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities. Courtesy IAEA. The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) said it supports the immediate establishment of a nuclear safety framework at all nuclear facilities in Ukraine that ensures the seven pillars of nuclear safety and security are achieved and maintained.

The safety group’s announcement came as Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, flew on Thursday to the Turkish city of Antalya where met the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine. Mr Grossi was scheduled to hold a press conference on his return to Vienna on Thursday evening.

“In meetings there, I hope to make progress on the urgent issue of ensuring the safety and security of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities. We need to act now,” Mr Grossi said in a statement. 

WANO said in a statement there can be no interference of any kind with Ukrainian member operators’ ability to safely perform their work.

The group’s performance objectives and criteria and safety principles provide high standards to guide nuclear plant operators worldwide on safe nuclear facility operation. “WANO is concerned about factors in the current situation that may challenge these high standards of operation,” it said.

Date: Friday, 11 March 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/as-iaea-chief-heads-for-talks-wano-says-it-supports-immediate-establishment-of-nuclear-safety-framework-3-4-2022

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, held talks in Turkey with Ukraine's foreign minister and Russia's foreign minister and said "we are making progress on the safety and security of nuclear facilities in Ukraine". 

Date: Friday, 11 March 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-chief-in-Turkey-for-talks-on-Ukraine-nuclear