By Francois Murphy
VIENNA (Reuters) – The last members of the only shift of technical staff that had been working at the radioactive waste facility at Chernobyl since Russian forces seized the site last month have been released, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said. UN) this Monday.
For more than three weeks, the facilities near the defunct power plant that was the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986 were operated by a single shift of employees who were on duty when Russian forces took control of the site on Ukrainian territory in February, 24. All were barred from leaving until Sunday.
For weeks the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned that the situation, in which the staff on duty were exhausted and working under extreme pressure, posed a growing risk to the safety of the site and called for them to be evacuated.
“Ukraine’s regulatory authority said that about half of the technical staff on the departure shift left the scene of the 1986 accident yesterday and the rest left today, with the exception of 13 employees who refused to rotate,” the IAEA said in a statement. .
The withdrawn technical team was replaced by Ukrainian colleagues who, like them, are based in the city of Slavutych, the IAEA said, citing Ukraine’s nuclear energy regulator.
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