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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Tom Balmforth

IAEA experts 'not going anywhere' after reaching Ukraine nuclear plant

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks with Ukrainian Minister of Energy German Galushchenko after Grossi and a part of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission came back from a Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at a Ukrainian checkpoint in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine September 1, 2022. REUTERS/Anna Voitenko

The U.N. nuclear agency chief said his experts were staying put after they crossed on Thursday into Russian-held territory in Ukraine and reached Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, where both sides warn of potential catastrophe.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection team braved intense shelling to reach the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, arriving after a delay of several hours in a large convoy with a heavy presence of Russian soldiers nearby.

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