Nuclear inspectors face volatile mission inside Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant

A Russian serviceman guards an area of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine (PA)

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency are used to risky missions – from the radioactive aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan to the politically charged Iranian nuclear programme.

But their deployment amid the war in Ukraine to Zaporizhzhia takes the threat to a new level and underscores the lengths to which the organisation will go in attempts to avert a potentially catastrophic nuclear disaster.