Nuclear watchdog says mission to Ukraine power plant ‘on its way’

A team from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency is set to visit the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine (Planet Labs PBC/AP)

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday that the UN 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 long sought access to the plant, Ukraine’s and Europe’s biggest, which Russian forces have controlled since soon after the war began.