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IAEA to Visit Ukraine Nuclear Plant Amid Renewed Shelling

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File photo – A power generating unit and a generator are pictured inside a engine room at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia Region, southeastern Ukraine, July 10, 2019. There was growing concern on Monday that the ongoing war in Ukraine could lead to serious damage at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of shelling the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station — a sprawling facility on Russian occupied ground that continues to function as the war rages around it. Russian emergency services released images of damage around the plant after both sides traded fresh accusations of shelling the compound. Photo by Dmytro Smolyenko/Ukrinform/Abaca/Sipa USA

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.

The site is Ukraine’s and Europe’s biggest nuclear facility. Russian forces have controlled it since soon after the war began.

Grossi tweeted Monday 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. Fears are intensifying that the fighting could cause a massive radiation leak.