Grossi’s visit to Zaporizhia NPP was postponed due to preparations for a safe rotation of personnel

The visit of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi to the Zaporozhye NPP has been postponed “for some time”. Information about this confirmed Russia’s representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov.

He explained that the visit was postponed in order to “provide the Ukrainian side with additional time to better prepare to ensure the safe rotation of IAEA personnel to the ZNPP.”

Earlier on June 14 that the visit would be postponed due to security concerns, reported Reuters agency. Advisor to the General Director of Rosenergoatom Concern Renat Karchaa announced about postponing the visit of the head of the IAEA and the delegation of the agency for a day, i.е. on June 15th.

June 12 Grossy headed to Ukraine, where he planned a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky. In addition, he wrote on Twitter that he would present a program of assistance in eliminating the consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.

On June 7, the day after the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP in the Kherson region broke, Grossi said that every hour the water level in the Zaporizhzhya NPP tanks was dropping by 5-7 cm. In this regard, in the medium term, the station could be left without water for cooling, which to damage the reactors, he said. According to the data obtained by the IAEA experts at the ZNPP site, by the morning of June 11, the water level at the Zaporizhzhya TPP was estimated at 11.27 m compared to almost 17 m before the dam burst.