UN nuclear watchdog frustrated by slow progress on protection zone for Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Progress at establishing a protection zone for Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is going too slowly, according to Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency, Report informs referring to CNN.

Grossi, who serves as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, added that he is “very frustrated.”

“For me, establishing a protection zone around a nuclear power plant is as self-evident as anything can be. How can you shell a nuclear power plant for God’s sakes?” Grossi said at an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington on October 28.

Russia, which controls the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, detained two staff members there on October 17, which caused “great concern” for Grossi.