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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Jane McLeod

The threat remains high at Ukraine's nuclear power station amid the ongoing war

Apartment block damaged by Russian shelling. Picture: David Pratt

INSPECTORS from the International Atomic Energy Agency are used to risky missions – from the radioactive aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan to the politically-charged Iranian nuclear programme.

But their deployment amid the war in Ukraine to Zaporizhzhia takes the threat to a new level and underscores the lengths to which the organisation will go in attempts to avert a potentially catastrophic nuclear disaster.

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