(6 Sep 2024)
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Kaliningrad, Russia – 6 September 2024
1. Head of Russian nuclear energy agency Rosatom Alexei Likhachev and head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi in front of journalists
2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexei Likhachev, head of Rosatom:
“There is no doubt that the Kyiv regime planned to attack and seize the Kursk NPP. There is no doubt about it. And only thanks to the heroism and courage of the Armed Forces, the National Guard, and the nuclear security, this did not happen.”
3. Camera filming the press conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexei Likhachev, head of Rosatom:
“Chernobyl will seem like a warm-up compared to what will happen if a military strike is carried out, an attack strike on a working RBMK thousand-ton reactor.”
5. Wide of Likhachev in front of camera
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexei Likhachev, head of Rosatom:
“We agreed that IAEA specialists will be in the same mode of waiting and immediate response, immediate departure to the plant, in case additional risks, additional threats to the Kursk NPP are recorded.”
7. Wide of Likhachev in front of camera
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexei Likhachev, head of Rosatom:
“The situation, I emphasise once again, is not getting any easier. The number of threats is growing. There are terrorist acts against the civilian population. Just a few days ago, an attempt was made to assassinate the former mayor of Enerhodar, our colleague and now an employee of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, (Andrei) Shevchik. He was seriously injured, his wife was also injured. This simply shows that they are not calming down in Kyiv. They continue to strike at infrastructure, at nuclear power plants, at personnel. Threats continue to be made.”
9. Mid of Likhachev talking
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexei Likhachev, head of Rosatom:
“Of course, we would like to hear more from the IAEA than we hear today. Not only recording the irreparable damage and reckless actions of those attacking the nuclear facilities of the Russian Federation, but also hearing the authors of these threats, the authors, the initiators of these actions.”
11. Wide of Grossi
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, head of IAEA:
“Of course these are enormously complex matters and we do have our differences about them. But it’s important to note that, above all, we are both committed to continue our professional dialogue on all these issues, which is indispensable.”
13. Wide of members of the media listening to the press conference
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, head of IAEA:
“I said it in Zaporizhzia, I said it in Kyiv, and I say it here in Kaliningrad. Nuclear power plants should never be attacked, under no circumstance. There is nothing that justifies (this). They are not legitimate military targets.”
15. Wide of Grossi taking questions from the media
STORYLINE:
Threats to Russian nuclear power plants are growing, and the situation “is not getting any easier,” the head of Russian nuclear energy agency Rosatom said on Friday following talks with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev said a recent attack on the former mayor of Enerhodar, where most of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant workers live demonstrated Kyiv was not "calming down."
"They continue to strike at infrastructure, at nuclear power plants, at personnel. Threats continue to be made," he told reporters.
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