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HOME / REGULATION & SAFETY / UN MOTION CALLS FOR ZAPORIZHZHIA PLANT'S
RETURN TO UKRAINIAN CONTROL


UN MOTION CALLS FOR ZAPORIZHZHIA PLANT'S RETURN TO UKRAINIAN CONTROL

Friday, 12 July 2024


The United Nations General Assembly voted by 99 votes to 9, with 60 abstentions,
for Russia to "immediately return the plant to the full control of the sovereign
and competent authorities of Ukraine". Meanwhile the IAEA warns about the impact
of the war on the city where most of the nuclear power plant workers live.

IAEA experts have been at the plant for nearly two years (Image: IAEA)


EXTRACTS OF UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION


The UN General Assembly resolution "demands that the Russian Federation urgently
withdraw its military and other unauthorised personnel from the Zaporizhzhia
nuclear power plant and immediately return the plant to the full control of the
sovereign and competent authorities of Ukraine to ensure its safety and security
and in order for the International Atomic Energy Agency to conduct safe,
efficient and effective safeguards implementation in accordance with the
comprehensive safeguards agreement and additional protocol of Ukraine,
consistent with the repeated calls by the General Conference and the Board of
Governors of the Agency".

It also "calls upon the Russian Federation, until it returns the Zaporizhzhia
nuclear power plant of Ukraine to the full control of the sovereign and
competent authorities of Ukraine, to provide the International Atomic Energy
Agency Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporizhzhia with timely and full
access to all areas at the plant that are important for nuclear safety and
security in order to allow the Agency to report fully on the nuclear safety and
security situation at the site".

And it calls upon "all parties to the armed conflict to implement fully the
'seven indispensable pillars for ensuring nuclear safety and security during an
armed conflict' and the five concrete principles of the Director General of the
International Atomic Energy Agency to help to ensure nuclear safety and security
at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant ... urges the Russian Federation to
immediately remove all anti-personnel mines placed along the perimeter of the
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant".


WHAT WAS RUSSIA'S REACTION?


Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, was
reported by the official Tass news agency as calling it "another nonconsensual,
politicised draft [which] will have absolutely no effect on the ground, as the
previous ones". The resolution was opposed by nine countries - Belarus, Burundi,
North Korea, Cuba, Mali, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria and Eritrea - with the 60
abstaining including India and China.


CONTINUING IAEA CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY AT ZAPORIZHZHIA


The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in its latest update on the
situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), said it was concerned
about military action in the area and especially its impact on the workers who
live in the nearby town of Energodar which has suffered power cuts, water
shortages and forest fires over recent days.

The IAEA said it had been told by the operators of ZNPP an attack had damaged an
electrical transformer in a sub-station in Energodar as well as shelling which
damaged a water pumping station. Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said:
"These latest attacks have not targeted the nuclear power plant directly, as
in April. However, continued military activity in the region remains a serious
concern and it is essential that the ... plant is protected to ensure nuclear
safety and security. The sporadic loss of basic living essentials such as
electricity and drinking water is affecting the staff and families at all
nuclear power plants and facilities throughout Ukraine, potentially impacting on
their ability to perform their important nuclear safety and security work."

The six unit nuclear power plant, which has been under Russian military control
since early March 2022, is located on the frontline of the Russian and Ukrainian
forces. There have been IAEA experts stationed at the site since September 2022
as part of efforts to support safety and security measures. They conduct regular
walks and inspection of parts of the site, but have "continued to hear
explosions and gunfire at various distances from the plant on a near daily basis
over the past week".

They also reported that the recent hot weather had led to the level of the
cooling pond dropping by about one centimetre a day, falling to below 15 metres
for the first time since the Kakhovka dam was destroyed last year.


ELSEWHERE IN UKRAINE


The IAEA also has experts stationed at Ukraine's other nuclear power plants -
Khmelnitsky, Rivne and South Ukraine, as well as at Chernobyl - and they report
that nuclear safety and security is being maintained. The IAEA also says that a
further four deliveries of equipment took place over the past week to support
Ukraine in maintaining nuclear safety and security - bringing the total number
of deliveries to 55 since the war began.

The Rivne nuclear power plant received measurement instruments, Khmelnitsky got
filter absorbers, there was nuclear security equipment for State Enterprise USIE
Izotop and also power supply units for the radiation monitoring network operated
by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.



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