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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.

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

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.

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

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". 

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

Regional authorities confirm that the six-unit facility in southeast Ukraine has been seized by Russian forces The fire broke out in a training building outside the station in the early hours of Friday, after being shelled by Russian forces, Ukrainian authorities said.

What is the significance of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station?

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 05 March 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-what-s-happening-at-europe-s-largest-nuclear-power-station-3-5-2022

Kremlin forces have taken over Chernobyl and areas around Zaporozhye NPP Kremlin forces have taken over Chernobyl and areas around Zaporozhye nuclear power station (pictured). Courtesy Rosenergoatom. The European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group has urged Russia to restore the Ukrainian nuclear regulator’s control over all nuclear facilities and materials within Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders, in line with internationally recognised safety standards and security guidance.

The independent expert advisory group said it had held an extraordinary meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Association of Regulators of Western Europe (Wenra) and the Ukrainian nuclear regulator SNRIU to address the safety of Ukrainian nuclear installations in view of the Russian Federation’s “military aggression”.

It noted that the IAEA’s 2009 general conference adopted a decision that “any armed attack on and threat against nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes constitutes a violation of the principles of the United Nations Charter, international law and the Statute of the Agency”.

Ensreg appealed for maximum restraint to avoid any action which may put the country’s nuclear facilities at risk.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 04 March 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/european-regulators-call-for-russia-to-hand-back-control-of-nuclear-facilities-3-4-2022

Energoatom says agency should ask Nato to close airspace above facilities Energoatom has refuted reports that Russia has taken control of the Zaporozhye nuclear station. Courtesy Energoatom. Ukraine has asked the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to appeal to Nato to close airspace over its nuclear facilities and to intensify actions to prevent what it called “acts of nuclear terrorism” over the seizure by Russian troops of the Chernobyl nuclear power station and exclusion zone.

The joint appeal to the IAEA, dated 2 March, was signed by energy minister Herman Galushchenko, acting chairman of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate (SNRIU) Oleg Korikov and acting president of nuclear operator Energoatom Petro Kotin.

They also asked the IAEA to help prevent set up a 30-km exclusion zone around the country’s four commercial nuclear stations and to establish a centre for monitoring the situation at the facility, site of the 1986 nuclear disaster.

Energoatom said Chernobyl staff have been held by the Russian military without rotation for the seventh day and are subjected to psychological pressure and are morally exhausted. They are said to have limited opportunities to communicate, move around or carry out routine work and repair work in full, which “leads to violations of the radiation regime and poses a danger to their lives and health”.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 04 March 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/country-appeals-to-iaea-to-help-with-nuclear-power-plant-security-3-4-2022

With the attention of the world focused on events in Ukraine, one of the questions people are asking is about the country’s nuclear power industry. Here is a brief overview.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Friday, 25 February 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/A-guide-Nuclear-power-in-Ukraine

Thirty-five years on from the Chernobyl accident, Ukraine and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have highlighted their commitment to cooperation in nuclear power. Meanwhile Ukraine’s nuclear regulator has launched the start of operations at a new storage facility for used nuclear fuel at the Chernobyl site.  

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Title

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko yesterday highlighted the important role nuclear power plays in the country's energy mix, particularly in terms of reducing its dependence on natural gas. Poroshenko was speaking during his working trip to the Mykolaiv region, where the South Ukraine nuclear power plant and the Tashlyk pumped storage plant (PSP) form the South Ukrainian Energy Complex.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Tuesday, 05 March 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukrainian-head-of-state-stresses-role-of-nuclear-p