The International Atomic Energy Agency inspection team was finally able to reach the nuclear power plant, which is right on the battle line between the Ukrainian military and Russian invasion forces.
Despite the Russian attacks, the IAEA has been able to start its important inspection.
- It is important that there is openness towards the outside world, that you get access to spare parts and that people come in and out.
It is also a question of understanding what has happened.
How big are the risks?
says Lars van Dassen in Aktuellt.
Lars van Dassen, who works with safety issues around nuclear power, has himself visited the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
"The opposite of how to run a nuclear power plant"
- Coming forward and having a presence, just being able to interact with the staff is important.
These are people who have been cut off from the outside world for six months.
It is the opposite of operating a nuclear power plant.
According to the local government of the Zaporizhzhya region, Russia is behind the attacks, and the aim is to prevent UN observers from reaching the nuclear power plant.
"The Russians are shelling the predetermined route that representatives from the IAEA would take to the nuclear power plant.
Due to the security risks, they cannot continue," Zaporizhzhia Region Governor Oleksandr Starukh wrote earlier on Thursday on Telegram.