“It’s going to be very, very soon. We hope, even this week if we can,” he told a TASS correspondent on the sidelines of the 66th annual session of the IAEA General Conference, replying to a question on the matter.
Commenting on progress of negotiations about creating a security zone around the nuclear facility, the head of the international organization said: “I think we are making progress.”
Earlier, Grossi met with Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev on the conference’s sidelines and discussed plans to create a protection zone around the Zaporozhye NPP. The IAEA head thought that it was “a necessary step towards reducing the risk of a nuclear accident.” In his address at the conference, he noted that he was ready to continue discussions with Russia and Ukraine on the matter.
