IAEA chief working on mission to Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

VIENNA

: The UN nuclear watchdog is "developing the modalities" for an international mission of experts it hopes to send to the Russian-held nuclear power plant at

Zaporizhzhia

in

Ukraine

, Europe's largest, its chief

Rafael Grossi

said on Monday.

"We are developing the modalities to dispatch such a mission; other considerations should not prevent this essential international mission from taking place,"

Grossi

said in a statement to the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation

Board of Governors

, adding that Ukraine had requested it.