“Our technical and scientific evaluation of the results we have so far has revealed no signs of undeclared nuclear activities and materials” at the three sites inspected, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said in a statement.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported this Thursday that its inspectors they have found no traces of an attempt to make a “dirty” atomic bomb in Ukraineafter inspecting three specific sites in the attacked country: “Our technical and scientific evaluation of the results we have so far has shown no sign of undeclared nuclear activities and materials at these three places,” said the director- general in a statement. of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi.
Grossi recalled that in recent days, experts from the UN nuclear agency he leads had “conducted on-the-spot verification activities in three places in Ukraine at the request of the government of this country”. According to Grossi, the inspectors “have been able to carry out all the activities that the IAEA intended to carry out and have had unrestricted access to the sites”.
The note recalls that “Ukraine’s written requests to the IAEA to send teams of inspectors were issued after the Russian Federation made allegations about the activities in the three places.” Those sites inspected They were the Nuclear Research Institute in Kiev, the Oriental Mining and Processing Plant in Zhovti Kody and the Production Association of the Pivdennyi Machine-Building Plant in Dnipro, the IAEA specifies.
After receiving the request, “I immediately sent inspectors to the three places to perform their indispensable technical and independent function of verifying the facts on the spot,” Grossi recalled, emphasizing that the international experts would be sent to those places went ” “, and “carried out their monitoring activities in difficult circumstances during the current conflict in Ukraine”.
In addition, they have collected environmental samples are analyzed in the laboratories of the agency, which is located in Vienna. Environmental sampling is a measure that can provide information on past and current activities related to the handling of nuclear materials, the note specifies.
Grossi emphasized that the agency “remains ready to conduct more such verification activities in Ukraine, to verify the absence of undeclared activities and materials and thus discourage any misuse of them.”
The Russian government had denounced Ukraine’s attempt to make and use an atomic bomb on its own territory, accused Moscow of using weapons of mass destruction and generating a harsh response from the West, an accusation Kiev has rejected. Also known as a radiological weapon, the dirty bomb is a conventional explosive, such as dynamite, enriched with radioactive material that disperses when the explosive explodes, according to a logic similar to that of chemical weapons.
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