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IAEA: Ukraine nuke plant 'out of control'

(3 Aug 2022) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4391285 ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 2 August 2022 1. Wide, Rafeal Grossi enters interview room HEADLINE: IAEA: Ukraine nuke plant out of control, visit urged 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency: "For any nuclear facility to operate normally and... and safely, there are a number of principles and norms that must be observed. And when we look at the situation, the very unique situation we have in Zaporizhzhya, we see that most of them, if not all, are being violated or not observed and not followed." ++WHITE FRAMES++ 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency: "Zaporizhzhya is completely out of control. There are some contacts. They are faulty. They are patchy. They are not what you would expect and need to have." ++WHITE FRAMES++ 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency: "The physical integrity of the place has not been respected. There was shelling at the beginning of the war and we hear quite regularly... information and we receive information about projectiles overflowing or flying, sorry, or falling on the place or drones or things like that, which are, of course, compromising the physical integrity of the place." ++WHITE FRAMES++ 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency: "What we need is the cooperation of the Russian occupiers, and we need the cooperation of Ukraine, because what I want to do is to go to their nuclear power plant. So what I'm pleading is for a practical approach to this. What's at stake is the nuclear safety and security of the biggest nuclear power plant in the European continent." ++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++ STORYLINE: The U.N. nuclear chief warned that Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine "is completely out of control" and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to quickly allow experts to visit the sprawling complex to stabilize the situation and avoid a nuclear accident. Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press that the situation is getting more perilous every day at the Zaporizhzhya plant in the southeastern city of Enerhodar, which Russian troops seized in early March, soon after their invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24. The physical integrity of the plant hasn't been respected, Grossi said, citing shelling at the beginning of the war when it was taken over and continuing information from Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of attacks at Zaporizhzhya.   Grossi says there is a paradoxical situation in which the plant is controlled by Russia, but its Ukrainian staff continues to run its nuclear operations, leading to inevitable moments of friction and alleged violence, he said. While the IAEA has some contacts with staff, they are "faulty" and "patchy," he said. Grossi said the supply chain of equipment and spare parts has been interrupted, "so we are not sure the plant is getting all it needs." The IAEA also needs to perform very important inspections to ensure that nuclear material is being safeguarded, "and there is a lot of nuclear material there to be inspected," he said. "When you put this together, you have a catalog of things that should never be happening in any nuclear facility," Grossi said. The IAEA chief said  he and his team need protection to get to the plant and the urgent cooperation of Russia and Ukraine. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...