The head of the UN’s nuclear energy watchdog has offered to travel to Ukraine in a bid to broker a deal with Russia and avoid further damage to radioactive power plants during the conflict.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said he has volunteered to travel to Chernobyl – the site of a nuclear disaster in the 1980s and now under Russian control since the invasion started – to reach a “framework” to uphold nuclear safety.
