Rosatom head Likhachev announced the premonition of intensifying hostilities in the ZNPP region

NGS “AKKUYU”, April 27 – RIA Novosti. Ukraine continues to escalate the situation around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, said after the ceremony of delivering the first fuel to the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey on Thursday, general director Alexei Likhachev said there is a sense of a possible intensification of hostilities in this direction. Rosatom’s.

Likhachev had previously attended the ceremony with his Turkish counterpart and IAEA president Rafael Grossi.

“Yes, that’s for sure. We regularly discuss the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant at the slightest opportunity, there is both good news and bad news,” said Likhachev. said. Gross. According to him, more than 4,000 people signed or are pending contracts.

“IAEA experts here, just today, in parallel with the ceremony, a rotation was held (to Akkuyu). The alarm is that the Ukrainian side continues to escalate the situation – a harbinger of both pressure on personnel and a possible catastrophe. Intensification of hostilities in this direction “, – said Likhachev.

Before the ceremony, Grossi told RIA Novosti that he is very hopeful that a safety zone will be created around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant by the end of the year.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin attended an official ceremony with a video conference on the occasion of the delivery of Russian-made nuclear fuel to power plant No. 1 of Akkuyu, Turkey’s first nuclear power plant. It was built by the state company Rosatom.

Rosatom emphasized that the delivery of fresh nuclear fuel to the Akkuyu NPP site in Mersin’s Gülnar district will be a key event in the construction of this nuclear power plant in 2023, the largest project in the history of Russia-Turkey cooperation.

The nuclear fuel at the station was placed in the fresh fuel storage facility. After that, Akkuyu NPP became a nuclear facility, and Turkey became a nuclear power country.