IAEA team plans Ukraine nuclear plant visit on Thursday
An international team of nuclear experts on Wednesday approached the combat zone in Russia’s war on Ukraine, preparing to cross over the front lines Thursday to inspect the imperiled, Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, in one of the most complex and perilous missions of its kind ever attempted.
The group of 14 experts with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, left Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, in a convoy of armored SUVs and traveled south, stopping for the night in the Ukrainian-held city of Zaporizhzhia, within range of Russian guns. Reaching the plant, about 30 miles to the southwest, will entail crossing a buffer zone between the two armies of battered villages and fields cratered by artillery shells.
