The IAEA Director General announced the end of his “long-awaited” visit to the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and the establishment of a permanent presence of the agency at the plant.
“I have just completed the first tour of the key locations we wanted to see in this first approach to the entire facility. Of course, there is still a lot to be done. My team remains, and most importantly, we establish our permanent presence from the IAEA here,” he said in a video from ZNPP posted on his Twitter.
Earlier, Energoatom, which includes Zaporizhia NPP, reported that as of 18:00 on Thursday, Grossi had left the station. Most of the members of the delegation left the station with him.
According to Energoatom, five representatives of the IAEA mission remained at the ZNPP, who are unloading the equipment they brought and will continue to work at the plant.
The IAEA mission arrived at the ZNPP captured by Russian troops on September 1, approximately after 14:00. According to the statements of the occupying authorities, the IAEA experts who left the station “should leave the territory controlled by the Russian Federation before 20:00.”
A mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived in Zaporizhia, Energoatom reported.
“Today, August 31, at about 15:00, the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in Zaporizhia,” Energoatom’s Telegram channel says on Wednesday.
As reported, Minister of Energy Herman Haluschenko said Wednesday morning that the IAEA mission had gone to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russian troops. On Tuesday, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi met with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The distance from Zaporizhia to Enerhodar, where the ZNPP is located, is about 120 km.
Head of Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Starukh has said that as of midday on Wednesday, the radiation background in the region remains within the natural range and does not pose a threat to human health.
“Zaporizhia Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine informs that the radiation background in Zaporizhia region remains unchanged and does not pose a threat to the life and health of the population … The gamma background … does not exceed the natural background characteristic of these territories,” Starukh wrote on the Telegram channel.
He listed the level of gamma background in different settlements of the region, it is in the range from 10.2 to 12 microroentgens per hour; in Energodar, where Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant is located – 10.6 microroentgens per hour.
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine plans to open traffic on the new cable-stayed bridge in Zaporizhia in January next year, Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov has said.
“On December 22, the process of lowering the main structure of the cable-stayed bridge was completed and in January we will open traffic on it. This is a great event for the whole country, and especially for Zaporizhia, since vehicles have been stuck in traffic jams there for many years,” he said at the Great Construction: Roads and Bridges forum held in Kyiv on Friday.
At the same time, Kubrakov said that officially construction of this bridge began in 2004, and talks about it have been since the late 1980s.
Mayor of Zaporizhia Volodymyr Buriak announced his intention to resign from the post of mayor for health reasons.
“Today, during a session of the Zaporizhia City Council, I announced my intention to resign from the post of mayor. You know that I was on sick leave and was examined. Considering that I was on the operating table three times, the doctors recommend that I take care of my health, because there are still several examinations to take,” Buriak wrote on his Facebook page.
He also said that he is not going to leave the city, he will not leave politics, and the party of Volodymyr Buriak “Yednannia” (Unity) will continue to participate in the development of the party and the city.
On November 25, 2015 Buriak took the oath of the mayor. On October 25, 2020, he was elected mayor of Zaporizhia for a second term.
Zaporizhia Iron Ore Plant (Dniprorudne, Zaporizhia region) in January-July this year increased iron ore production by 7.5% compared to the same period last year, to 2.84 million tonnes (in January-July 2020 – some 2.642 million tonnes).
The company told Interfax-Ukraine that during this period, 2.705 million tonnes of products were shipped to consumers. At the same time, 423,000 tonnes of ore were mined in July, and 385,900 tonnes were shipped to consumers.
Zaporizhia Iron Ore Plant sells its products to metallurgical enterprises in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria and Poland, as well as to Zaporizhstal metallurgical plant in Ukraine.
The main shareholders of the plant are Slovak company Minerfin, a.s. with 51.1697%, Zaporizhstal with 29.5193%, and Czech KSK Consulting, a.s. with 19.0632%.
