PARIS. July 4 (Interfax) - The attacks on infrastructure of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant violate nuclear safety and security pillars, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said on Thursday.
"Rafael Grossi said attack violates several pillars of nuclear safety and security, including the 3rd, which protects the staff," the IAEA said on the X social network.
"ZNPP informed IAEA that 8 workers injured in yesterday's drone strikes are ZNPP staff," it said.
Rosatom head Alexei Likhachev said on Wednesday that a drone strike on the Raduga power substation in Energodar injured Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant employees and compromised the IAEA safety and security principle.
"There were three drone strikes on the Raduga substation in Energodar, which supplies power to the city itself and is part of the Zaporozhye NPP's energy infrastructure, at 10:30 a.m., 10:37 a.m. and 10:47 a.m.," Likhachev told journalists on Wednesday.
Eight people were injured, he said.
"This is the first attack that deliberately targeted Zaporozhye NPP staff," Likhachev said.
The Zaporozhye NPP with six VVER-1000 reactor units is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. It stopped generating electricity on September 11, 2022. All six reactors are in a cold shutdown.
All plant facilities are incorporated into the Zaporozhye NPP federal state unitary enterprise and owned by Russia. The Zaporozhye NPP Operator, founded by Rosatom's Rosenergoatom, runs the plant.