Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will visit the Kursk NPP. He told the Financial Times newspaper, Komersant ukrainskyi
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According to him, during his trip, he will try to assess the state of power supply and access roads to the plant, as well as talk to the plant’s managers and collect data on whether the Kursk nuclear power plant was shelled.
“As the fighting continues, I am very concerned,” the IAEA chief said.
Russian media reported that Russia’s permanent representative to international organisations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, confirmed that Grossi would visit the Kursk region and even named the time as early as the beginning of next week.
The Kursk plant is one of the four largest nuclear power plants in Russia. The Kursk NPP accounts for more than half of the installed capacity of all power plants in five regions (Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Lipetsk, and Tambov).
The plant has four power units in total, but only units 3 and 4 with a total capacity of 2,000 MW are in generation mode.
If Russia loses control over the Kursk nuclear power plant, a large-scale blackout could occur.
The plant is located about 80-90 kilometres from the border with Ukraine. The distance depends on the roads to get there.
At present, the Ukrainian military has advanced about 35 km deep into Russian territory in the Kursk region and is about 50 km away from the plant.
Earlier, it was reported that the Russian occupiers may be preparing a nuclear provocation at the Kursk or Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants to blame Ukraine for it.
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