IAEA experts to visit Chernobyl NPP within 2 weeks to assess security levels - Grossi

NEW YORK (UN). Oct 28 (Interfax) - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi has announced a visit of IAEA inspectors to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the coming weeks.

Grossi told reporters after a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council that IAEA experts would be sent there within the next two seeks to assess the security levels.

As to whether the Chernobyl NPP could be part of the suspected dirty bomb provocation, Grossi said the IAEA had seen no proof of that.

IAEA experts will begin an inspection of two nuclear sites in Ukraine at Kiev's request within a couple of days, Grossi said. He added that the IAEA was planning to send more inspectors to other sites in Ukraine, including the Chernobyl, South Ukraine and Khmelnitsky nuclear power plants.

For his part, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya told reporters that Russia warned Grossi at the meeting that the dirty bomb could be produced outside the two nuclear sites the IAEA inspectors were planning to visit.