Mission To Ukraine Nuclear Plant Underway

KYIV (AP) – The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says that the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s long-awaited expert mission to the Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine “is now on its way.” IAEA director general Rafael Grossi has for months sought access to the Zaporizhzhia plant – Ukraine’s and Europe’s biggest – which Russian forces have controlled since soon after the war began. Grossi wrote on Twitter that “the day has come.” He said the mission will arrive later this week. Russia and Ukraine have traded claims of strikes at or near the plant in recent days, intensifying fears that the fighting could cause a massive radiation leak.