Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency departed from Iran on July 4 to return to headquarters in Vienna, the agency said on website X that day.
The inspectors had been in Tehran “throughout the recent military conflict,” the post said. The agency’s director general Rafael Grossi also “reiterated the crucial importance of the IAEA discussing with Iran modalities for resuming its indispensable monitoring and verification activities in Iran as soon as possible,” the post said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also said in a statement July 4 that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant lost all of its off-site power for “several hours” that day for the ninth time since the conflict began in 2022. The plant then had to rely on emergency diesel generators for over three and a half hours.
“What was once virtually unimaginable – that a major nuclear power plant would repeatedly lose all of its external power connections – has unfortunately become a common occurrence at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant,” Grossi said in the statement. “Almost three and a half years into this devastating war, nuclear safety in Ukraine remains very much in danger.”
Meanwhile, in May Ukraine protested to the IAEA about Russia building power lines from Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, to Russia’s main power grid.
