IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, who visited a different nuclear plant in Ukraine earlier this week and traveled to Russia on Friday for talks with senior officials, described news of the Russian withdrawal from Chernobyl as “undoubtedly a step in the right direction.”“We have been saying the plant needed to be operated by its own operators … under normal circumstances, which were not of course present when you had foreign troops,” Grossi said.
He told a news conference Friday the IAEA would send a mission “very, very soon” to Chernobyl, where he said radiation levels were “quite normal.” He said the agency’s staff would require secure routes to move around the conflict zone. He added that the IAEA also plans to establish a “rapid assistance mechanism,” which in the case of an emergency at a nuclear facility could quickly send a team to assess and help.after the 1986 disaster.
Ukraine’s state-owned firm Energoatom said March 31 that all of the Russian forces had withdrawn from the Chernobyl nuclear power station. Thursday that Ukrainian officials informed it that Russian troops had, “in writing, transferred control” of the Chernobyl nuclear plant back to Ukrainian personnel.The IAEA also said it has not been able to confirm reports that Russian troops had received “high doses of radiation” while stationed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Seems their camping excursion in the Red Forest didn't pan out like they imagined it would. I guess they've had their fill of radiation for a bit.
Now is the time for Ukraine to use the radioactive material to make dirty bombs for future use. Don't repeat the mistakes of the past again