The levels of radiation measured at Chernobyl nuclear site are well below levels approved for workers, the IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said during a press conference in Vienna on Thursday.
Grossi briefed journalists upon his return from Ukraine and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and said 'from a radiation perspective is stable.'
The mission was extremely important, Grossi said and added that 'An important aspect also of the mission was the connectivity, our ability to have the remote monitoring capabilities that were interrupted in Chernobyl.'
'We had been losing some important connectivity to the site. And we also needed to have an assessment of the radiation situation on site,' he said.
Also IAEA had an opportunity to start delivering a substantial amount of equipment as required and requested by Ukrainian counterparts to the facility, Grossi said.
Grossi added that Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was at the top of his list of concerns amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.
'We are starting a number of activities with our Ukrainian counterparts, but the situation continues to be of concern because, as you know, it is still under Russian control,' Grossi said about the Zaporizhzhia plant.
He said that over the course of the next few months, IAEA will send more people to the nuclear power plants in Ukraine for safety checks.
By Zeynep Beyza Kilic
Anadolu Agency
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