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STORY: IAEA / UKRAINE NUCLEAR PLANTS
TRT: 04:45
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 JANUARY 2023, PIVDENNOUKRAINSK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UKRAINE / 17 JANUARY 2023, RIVNE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UKRAINE
17 JANUARY 2023, RIVNE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UKRAINE
1. Various shots, nuclear plant seen from vehicle
2. Pan right, Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi and Ukrainian officials
3. Various shots, IAEA flag being raised at power plant
4. Med shot, Grossi and Ukraine officials
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“The IAEA is setting up permanent support and assistance missions in all nuclear facilities in Ukraine. Zaporizhzhya, which is a Ukrainian facility, already has one, which I set up in September last year.
6. Med shot, Grossi and Ukraine officials
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“In preparation for my personal visit, we were able to send a preparatory mission, an advance mission that prepared a report indicating and praising in fact, the outstanding work of the Director-General and all the staff here for the way in which the plant has been operating in spite of the war.”
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“That doesn't mean that there are no problems and that there are no needs. There that are things where we can work together. There are certain requirements and certain equipment or processes where the joint work between this power plant and the IAEA with the support of the regulator, the Ukrainian regulator, we can provide a better - I would say - overall circumstance for the plant to continue to operate in spite of these difficulties imposed by the war.”
16 JANUARY 2023, PIVDENNOUKRAINSK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UKRAINE
9. Various shots, flag raising ceremony
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
The IAEA is present here working with you working with the regulator, working with all the staff we like to see here. So now we are setting this permanent presence here. We are going to be discussing the details of it in a second, but I think it is highly symbolic that we start this cold evening here, but with a warm spirit and with great determination.”
11. Pan right conference room
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“This is part of our set of missions. We are starting today, here at South Ukraine. We are going to be continuing in Rivne, Khmelnitsky next week. And also, Chernobyl.”
13. Med shot, Grossi at meeting
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“In response to an official request from President Zelensky and minister Halushchenko to set up missions. We sent preparatory teams already a few weeks ago to identify areas that would need support in each one of these facilities. Each one is different, has different characteristics.”
15. Med shot, Grossi at meeting
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“We are leaving now a group of experts who are going to be staying here permanently, and it will be the same in all these other places. working hand-in-hand with a with our Ukrainian hosts to facilitate some technical support, delivery of equipment to make sure that all these facilities that are so important for the country and especially at this difficult time can continue running normally and without any problems.”
17. Med shot, Grossi at meeting
Teams of nuclear safety and security experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are being stationed at Ukraine’s nuclear power plants (NPPs) and the Chornobyl site this week. Their planned long-term presence at the facilities marks a major expansion in the IAEA’s efforts to help reduce the risk of a severe nuclear accident during the ongoing conflict in the country.
Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi today (17 Jan) launched the IAEA Support and Assistance Mission in Rivne (ISAMIR) at a flag-raising ceremony at this plant in western Ukraine, a day after he deployed a similar team, ISAMISU, at the South Ukraine NPP an eight-hour drive away.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“The IAEA is setting up permanent support and assistance missions in all nuclear facilities in Ukraine. Zaporizhzhya, which is a Ukrainian facility, already has one, which I set up in September last year.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“In preparation for my personal visit, we were able to send a preparatory mission, an advance mission that prepared a report indicating and praising in fact, the outstanding work of the Director-General and all the staff here for the way in which the plant has been operating in spite of the war.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“That doesn't mean that there are no problems and that there are no needs. There that are things where we can work together. There are certain requirements and certain equipment or processes where the joint work between this power plant and the IAEA with the support of the regulator, the Ukrainian regulator, we can provide a better - I would say - overall circumstance for the plant to continue to operate in spite of these difficulties imposed by the war.”
On Monday, at the Pivdennoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant, he held talks with Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko, the head of Ukraine’s nuclear power company Energoatom, Petro Kotin, and the head of Ukraine’s regulatory body, Oleh Korikov.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
The IAEA is present here working with you working with the regulator, working with all the staff we like to see here. So now we are setting this permanent presence here. We are going to be discussing the details of it in a second, but I think it is highly symbolic that we start this cold evening here, but with a warm spirit and with great determination.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“This is part of our set of missions. We are starting today, here at South Ukraine. We are going to be continuing in Rivne; Khmelnitsky next week. And also, Chernobyl.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“In response to an official request from President Zelensky and minister Halushchenko to set up missions. We sent preparatory teams already a few weeks ago to identify areas that would need support in each one of these facilities. Each one is different, has different characteristics.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“We are leaving now a group of experts who are going to be staying here permanently, and it will be the same in all these other places. working hand-in-hand with a with our Ukrainian hosts to facilitate some technical support, delivery of equipment to make sure that all these facilities that are so important for the country and especially at this difficult time can continue running normally and without any problems.”
On Wednesday Grossi will inaugurate the IAEA Support and Assistance Mission in Chornobyl (ISAMICH), site of the 1986 accident in northern Ukraine, and in the next few days, an expert mission will also be deployed at the Khmelnitsky NPP. The IAEA already has a permanent presence of up to four experts at Ukraine’s largest NPP, Zaporizhzhya.
With IAEA teams permanently present at all of Ukraine’s NPPs and the Chornobyl site, the Agency will have around 11-12 staff simultaneously on the ground in the country, an unprecedented undertaking by the organization.
