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FILE PHOTO: A view shows Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the bank of Kakhovka Reservoir near the town of Nikopol, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A view shows Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the bank of Kakhovka Reservoir near the town of Nikopol, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo. Russia has no plans to start the nuclear power plant

MOSCOW – Russia is not currently planning to restart the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the head of Russia’s state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

Russian forces have occupied the Zaporizhzhia plant since early in what Russia calls its special military operation in Ukraine, and its six reactors are not in operation.

Russian state-run news agency TASS said Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), had held talks with a Rosatom delegation in the western Russian city of Kaliningrad at which he said an understanding was reached on the safety of the plant.

TASS said Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev had underlined the importance of the plant’s safety and that restarting it was not currently on the agenda.

Escalation

Environment group Greenpeace, citing documents it said were submitted by Rosatom to the IAEA in mid-May, had said Russia was planning to restart the plant and that this could be fraught with “unprecedented escalation.”

Russia and Ukraine have accused each other at various times of shelling what is Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. Both deny the accusations.

The IAEA, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, has said the plant has been experiencing off-site power problems since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, increasing security risks at the site.

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