(4 Feb 2025)
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Kyiv, Ukraine – 04 February 2025
1.Wide shot of substation in Kyiv region
2. Medium shot of damaged transformer
3. Wide shot of IAEA Director general Rafael Mariano Grossi and Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko walking in substation
4. Various shots of damaged transformer
5. Wide of Grossi talking to reporter
6. Close up of sign IAEA
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General:
“We are very clear you know. We have, I have from the very beginning of this war, insisted and managed to keep a very open channel of communication with, of course, with Kyiv and with Moscow. I’ve met President Putin several times, Minister Lavrov and the CEO of Rosatom (nuclear industry company), the I mean, people from the military and the nuclear regulator. And I think this is essential.”
8.Wide of Grossi talking to journalist
9. Close of hand
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General:
"There were a few circumstances before we started our operation, there was direct shelling. We had last summer, you remember the fire of one of the cooling towers. You remember this huge cooling tower with this black smoke coming out of it. So there have been a few occasions where we had close calls.”
11.Various shots of damaged transformer in substation
12. Wide shot of Grossi and Galushchenko at substation
13. Substation
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General:
“The worst, if you ask me these terms, could be that that the operability of these substations is neutralized completely, so you don’t have any capacity to connect them to the to the nuclear power plants. At that moment, the nuclear power plants, it’s not that they are going to to go straight into a meltdown or an accident, but they are going to have to be cooled through emergency generators like the ones that you may have in a house or in, you know, any any any facilities which are basically which is basically the last line of defense. And when you have a big nuclear power plant, you don’t want to be at the last line of defense, not to mention that you may have supply problems. I mean, these these they they need to be fueled. So these these emergency generators. So you are you are putting yourself very close to war and you don’t want to be there. You want to avoid that that that situation. So this would be a very, very dangerous situation, position to be.”
15. Various of damaged transformer
16. Wide of Grossi and Galushchenko in substation
STORYLINE:
The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog said Tuesday he will visit Moscow in the coming days to speak with officials about Russia’s persistent attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure which threaten nuclear safety.
“I have from the very beginning of this war, insisted and managed to keep a very open channel of communication with, of course, with Kiev and with Moscow. I’ve met President Putin several times, Minister Lavrov and the CEO of Rosatom, the I mean, people from the military and the nuclear regulator. And I think this is essential,” International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi told the Associated Press.
More than half of Ukraine’s power is generated by three functioning nuclear plants and Russia has increasingly threatened their ability to function.
The attacks have also sought to disrupt Ukraine’s defense manufacturing industry.
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