Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Posted: 23rd September 2024

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi keeps sounding the alarm about the dangers to Ukrainian and Russian nuclear power plants in a war zone. Then he travels the world promoting nuclear power. He’s right about the first part but is increasing nuclear risks by promoting its expansion, write M.V. Ramana and Jixiang Wang. 

An inadvertent advocate?

Nuclear reactors are slow, expensive and dangerous, especially when caught up in a war zone as they currently are in Ukraine and Russia. The IAEA’s Director General, Rafael Grossi, is simultaneously increasing the risk of a nuclear accident, “albeit inadvertently”, write M.V. Ramana and Jixiang Wang, “by calling for building more reactors” even while warning the leaders of Russia and Ukraine that they are risking a “severe nuclear accident” that would “know no borders.” It’s a clear conflict of interest, they say. READ MORE

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