The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says he’s alarmed by the threat of a nuclear accident at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant.
In an interview airing Sunday on CBC’s Rosemary Barton Live, Rafael Mariano Grossi told CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton that the IAEA is doing what it can to protect the plant as armies mobilize for an anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive.
For months, analysts have pointed to the southern Zaporizhzhia region in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine as one possible target for the counteroffensive.
“If we have a nuclear accident there, this will not recognize uniforms or flags,” Grossi said.
“It’s going to add
