The Conversation Ross Peel, Research and Knowledge Transfer Manager, King's College London, 8nSept 22,
"....................... In a much-anticipated September 6 update, the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recommended this safety and security zone be put around the Zaporizhzhia plant in southeastern Ukraine to avoid a nuclear disaster.
This would be the first time an international body has overseen an endangered nuclear plant during a war. In previous military actions involving nuclear power plants, they were destroyed outright by aerial bombing – but mostly while under construction, before they were operational, or before building up inventories of hazardous spent nuclear fuel in vulnerable cooling ponds.
Previously, the IAEA has only been able to gain access to such sites afterwards, "to pick up the pieces". For the IAEA to intervene directly in the delivery of safety and security would be unprecedented, and legally and practically very challenging.
There has been no agreement yet from Russia to these proposals............................
This report follows a long-awaited visit by IAEA experts, who began inspecting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on September 2. The plant has been occupied by Russian forces since March, with Ukrainian staff working under stressful conditions to prevent a nuclear disaster. Since August, the plant has been shelled many times, damaging critical safety equipment and services. Both Russia and Ukraine blame each another for these attacks..............................
With IAEA experts now permanently on site, the agency will be able to receive direct updates from its own personnel. They will be able to report on conditions for Ukrainian staff, as well as the status of nuclear safety and security equipment and military actions........... https://theconversation.com/zaporizhzhia-proposals-for-demilitarised-zone-around-europes-biggest-nuclear-power-plant-are-unprecedented-expert-reveals-189927
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