IAEA head, Ukrainian FM discuss Zaporozhye NPP situation

BRUSSELS. Sept 29 (Interfax) -The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiga have discussed the situation at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).

"We exchanged about the critical situation at ZNPP, now without offsite power for 6 days. The IAEA is working to facilitate the restoration of power to ensure nuclear safety and security," Grossi said on X on Monday after talks at the Warsaw Security Forum.

The issue was discussed at Grossi's meeting with Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev on the sidelines of the World Atomic Week in Moscow on September 26.

"Timely meeting with Rosatom's Alexey Likhachev [took place] in Moscow today to exchange on the nuclear safety and security at ZNPP," Grossi said on the X social network following the meeting last Friday.

Earlier, Grossi said that IAEA specialists were trying to establish what caused the loss of offsite power supply to the NPP.

The Zaporozhye NPP with six VVER-1000 reactor units is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. It stopped generating electricity on September 11, 2022. All six reactors are in a cold shutdown.

All plant facilities are incorporated into the Zaporozhye NPP federal state unitary enterprise and owned by Russia. The Zaporozhye NPP Operator, founded by Rosatom's Rosenergoatom, runs the plant..