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Alexey Yasinsky, Director of Strategic Communications at the Zaporizhia NPP (ZNPP) operating organisation told Rossiya 24 TV that staff at the plant were not being evacuated. Some employees had been at home due to the 9 May [Victory Day] holidays but had returned to work as normal. He clarified that the situation of ZNPP is now stable, with employees at their work stations.

Date: Friday, 12 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newszaporizhia-npp-denies-reports-of-plans-to-evacuate-staff-10838930

Russia will switch the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant back from US-made nuclear fuel as soon as possible, according to reported comments from Renat Karchaa, an adviser to Rosenergoatom's CEO. It follows a CNN report that the US Department of Energy had sent a letter saying that the occupied plant in Ukraine "contains US-origin nuclear technical data that is export-controlled by the United States Government".

Date: Friday, 21 April 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rosatom-ready-to-discuss-non-proliferation-and-exp

The Russian president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov denied Ukrainian suggestions that Russian forces were preparing to withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

Date: Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-rejects-claims-it-plans-to-leave-Zaporizhzh

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it understands that Ihor Murashov, who had been director general at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, will not resume the role after his release from Russian detention.  Energoatom's President Petro Kotin says administration of the plant was transferred to Kyiv following the detention and that he has now taken on the role of its acting director general.

Date: Thursday, 06 October 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Released-Zaporizhzhia-director-general-not-return

The US Biden Administration on 4 February restored a number of sanctions waivers for Iran in the run up to the final weeks of negotiations to reinstate the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Date: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-restores-some-sanction-waivers-on-iran-9467573

The one-month extension to the 'temporary technical understanding' between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expired on 24 June and Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters in Tehran today that no decision had yet been made on whether or not to continue with the arrangement.

Date: Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Iran-IAEA-cooperation-unclear-as-technical-underst

In the wake of suspected sabotage at Iran’s Natanz enrichment facility on 11 April, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araghchi in a letter to the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi on 13 April announced that Iran would start the uranium enrichment at the level of 60%. Under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran the P5+1 group of countries (the USA, UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany) Iran agreed to limit its nuclear development in return for the lifting of sanctions. Under the JCPOA, Iran had committed to keep enrichment to 3.67%. However, after former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal and reimposed sanctions in 2018, Iran began reviving its nuclear programme and had increased its enrichment level to 20% in January.

Date: Friday, 16 April 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiran-steps-up-nuclear-activity-following-attack-on-its-natanz-facility-8673087