 Yeah, very good. Yeah Thank you very much Fredrik is very good to see you we're just back from our trip to Chernobyl and Keith and The mission we have there of course with with very important developments over there starting with what we did at Chernobyl site and then quite naturally my trip to Kiev and the conversations I had with President Zelensky over there, so The mission was extremely important. You may remember that I had been insisting that we are giving the opportunity to come Because we had been losing some important connectivity To the site and we also needed to have an assessment of the radiation situation on site Which was possible this time? We also had an opportunity to start delivering equipment this time we went with with You know quite a substantial amount of Equipment as required and requested by our Ukrainian counterparts and had Exchanges we can talk about later. I can give you perhaps a few indications with with some images I Wanted to prepare for you to to get a more clear idea of what was done and of course we can go back to them and See whether there are any doubts or points that you would like to clarify more so what you can see behind me is the The the site the Chernobyl site you can see over here the sarcophagus here You have it here then the reactors and then what's around it of course is part of the exclusion zone which is quite quite vast and What we wanted to highlight for you and hence the ring the white ring that you can see there is Specific area that we wanted to go and check because this is the zone where some excavations are Presumably or most probably made by the occupation forces during the month long Their month-long presence Over there. There were other measurements and there will be more but this was more pressing because of the information about the possibility of Extraordinary exposure to radiation and in general and in the site You can see our experts this photo is from This morning or yesterday? Yesterday this happened yesterday there you can see the excavations you can see them and Our experts who traveled with me Taking the measurements so An important aspect also of the mission as I mentioned before was The connectivity our ability to have their remote monitoring Capabilities that were interrupted. I had shown to you on previous occasions this table which quite obviously when you see red indicate the loss of Connection and information coming to us, which is absolutely indispensable because there's a lot of Spent fuel over there and we were losing these these capacities our safeguards Experts who came with me. Of course, you see the two deputy director general here, Madame Everard In charge of the entire safety and security operation at the agency and this particular action and of course, Mr. Apparo safeguards and We went there with with with an antenna that we needed to replace and you can see already This is what this morning max this morning. You can see that we are getting back the Information which is indispensable for us and I suppose that in the next over the next few hours It will look as it should all agree This is a very important Information that I would like Everybody to be aware of and he has to do with the levels of radiation that we were able to Determine and identify after the first Measurements that that we took this is a very simplified chart, but it gives you an order of magnitude anybody familiar with issues related to Radio protection dosimetry will know that there are many Units measure and that you have many criteria against which you can have these things But this is going to this is the truth and this is what People should understand what you have on the Right on the on the left hand side is the level the normal levels that you can have here In Vienna, you can see here what we were able to measure Near the excavations This is on the excavations inside These places and as you can see this is three times or more lower Lower than the authorized levels for workers In areas exposed to radiation. So this gives you the the impression tell them I'm busy This gives you the impression that Or the information sorry that of course. Yes, there was an increase But these increase is still Significantly below the authorized levels for workers in an environment with this type of of radiation so With this what do we want to say or what I would like to transmit is of course there was an increase in the levels But the situation is not one that could be judged as posing Great danger to the environment or To people at the moment that we were taking these these measures these measurements. So this is the The I would say the introductory information I wanted to give you So that you can have an idea of what was done What is going to happen? But I'm sure that through your questions We will be able to explore a little bit more What was that so I stop here and I'm open to your questions. Yes, Jordy Hello, Jordy from Agentiefe This last level of exposure for radiation you were talking about is that in relation to Reports about Russian soldiers. Yes supposedly exposed to high level. Yes. Is that not possible? Is that what you're saying? Well, no what I'm saying. This is these are the levels we measured These are the levels we measured so you can extrapolate that to The hypothetical situation of people there we have asked About possible Exposures or situations we haven't received any Any answer to that but we're talking about the Red Forest. Yeah, well in the vicinity. Yes, but there was I mean There was information I know who was who the experts were was saying that these soldiers were supposed to die in the next few months because of the High we don't have any information to confirm that and this is the situation in terms of radiation Johannes Bleschberger for CGTN Could you tell us the current or the latest information from the Zaporizhia power plant? Concerning ongoing warfare close to the plant as well as the current state of the facility. Thanks. Well, I would say Zaporizhia is What is At the top of my list of concerns when it comes to the situation With the nuclear facilities in Ukraine Chernobyl was and continues to be but as you can see we are working this we have the place is from a radiation perspective is Stable and we are working we are starting a number of activities with our Ukrainian counterparts with Zaporizhia the situation continues to be of concern why because as you know It is still under Russian control so the Ukrainian regulator Is not in control of the situation there And there are a number of activities that need to take place will have to take place in terms of both Inspections and safeguards activities there that we will have to perform Sooner rather than later and also from a safety and security Point of view because we need to as you remember on the on the 4th of March There was there were these episodes violence projectile impacting a building very close to the reactor We need to see the functionality of the safety and security the safety equipment We need to see whether there has been an impact on the physical protection of material So there is a lot to be done there quite clearly this the situation in and around Zaporizhia is not only a matter of nuclear safety Security or safeguards is a matter of profound political implications And this is why I was discussing about this at some length with President Zelensky Because everybody is aware of the fact that we have to go there but Since this place is Occupied by Russian forces. There are implications in terms of what does this mean? in terms of the war in terms of the military conflict that that is ongoing there our where I can tell you at this point is that our Consultations continue of course First and foremost with Ukraine, but also with Russia and in a few days. I will be seeing also My Russian counterparts and will continue this Discussion you referred also in your question to some information about missiles over flying the the site We received some videos. We are checking this we have to be 100% sure in any case in any case. I should say that any such Development if confirmed would be extremely serious. I have been saying from the first day of this crisis that the physical integrity of nuclear facilities is an absolute must and of course missile going astray or Something like this could have significant a very significant Impact, but we we need to go back to support Asia is extremely important in separation you have Tens of thousands of nuclear material plutonium rich uranium And we have to be verifying that so it's still the the open question that we have at the moment Sorry did you just I have some questions on Iran, but maybe we'll turn to that later if you have time It's just on Ukraine and on Chernobyl. Just so I understand the dosage levels I thought is I thought 20 was a cumulative level for the year Right, so if that is the level the authorized level that Worker could be authorized to be exposed to in a year in a year Yeah, but so this 6.5 is that does that mean if you spent a certain amount if you spent three days there You would then reach consider no consider less Okay, so you would be safe to be at 6.5. Yeah Yeah, and we can infer that no one was there permanently. There's no But as I said we have put the question And we haven't received any any answer what you can see quite clearly for from from this is that the levels are There's a peak any and in fact this is consistent with what we saw in general You remember that when the the Russians first came there was an increase in the levels, but always You know well within Safe levels, right so because then This is also after those these trenches or whatever they were would Skavation they would dug a fair a little while ago. So would the level would Have been a fair bit higher when they were being dug. Do you have any sense of how much higher it would have been when this was Normally this these these are stable and the decay is very slow and this is why It doesn't mean that it's evaporating like this in you know in the space of one week or so and or because you are removing Earth and you know so Sorry, so it doesn't appear to have been a health risk then from having what it doesn't appear to have been a risk to the health of these People who were digging these well, I would say it's it's not it was not a good thing if you if you start I wouldn't recommend anybody to to Start excavating a place that it's known to have been you know Subject to high doses of radiation. There is a risk there, but As you know, this is probably a decision taken by a military or security force I don't know under what kind of circumstances. I don't know with what kind of protective equipment. These are unknowns for us But quite clearly it's not a place to have a picnic or excavate No, right, but I'm just trying to get a sense of you know in language people can understand like yeah This is one in terms of what you're saying. It's risky, but not that risky It's risky the The the the the right thing to say is that of course it is risky But if you ask me whether the levels are levels that would Have a the kinds of consequences or Assessments that were being made. Well, this is the importance of having a mission like the one we had to go with an independent verifying Inspectorate in this case safety Inspectorate to look and see what the situation. This is the situation And is this pretty much what you would have expected to see is kind of having heard we didn't know we didn't know and we were the safety teams were making some inferences and calculations which were Could be considered to be going in that direction But as you know, and this is the the trademark of the house until we go Verify measure we don't confirm or deny anything Thank you. Hi, it's Stephanie listen to freelance journalist I wanted to ask you you've talked now about Saporizhia and Chernobyl, but obviously there's several other nuclear power plants in Ukraine And I was wondering is there anything that you are already working on now? Oh, yes Situations there or what can be done? So we are working everywhere. We are working everywhere with the exception of Saporizhia Although one could say that we are working there since we have some connection with the plant, but for Khmenitsky for Rivne which is the and for South Ukraine nuclear power plant. We have apart from you remember that I visited personally South Ukraine nuclear power plant and apart from that. We are starting again our verification activities in These places are safeguards activities in these places, which is also very very important and We are working on them also on some safety matters and One of the things we also agreed is that in the course of the next few weeks Probably months. We are going to be sending more people to the to these places But if you ask me today, these other facilities do not have an urgent or there's no urgent situation there demanding an action or a reaction from us with the same degree I would say of Priority that you could have for example for Saporizhia Just one question on Iran if I may You agreed with Iran. I think it was the beginning of March on this timetable According to which they were supposed to have given you answers then two weeks you can ask questions and with one week You were supposed to hold meetings This time has passed and these steps have passed. Has this happened? Has this happened according to schedule? It's happening according to schedule any delays or not not in the sense of the Perhaps one or two days, but we are working Yep, that was one of the questions I was going to ask but there's also there's another one You did an interview with the Associated Press while you were in while you were in Ukraine. I just want to call up your exact wording It was about the the new centrifuge parts workshop at Natanz which in your reports you haven't said where at Natanz this workshop is Um, but in this interview you said They are transferring the centrifuge producing capacity to a place where they feel they are more protected Does that mean that it's been moved underground into the FEP or the the the building that's there? Yes, it has Well, they are working. They are making this. I don't know if they finished max. They they finished the operation He said that they're ready to operate Yeah, so we can everything all our monitoring system are in place But we don't go back. Okay, so it's in the FEP hole then or one of the holes one of the FEP holes Thank you Sorry one one final question on Saporizhya. You said you would meet with your russian counterparts About this any any idea when this will be the next few days here in vienna. No, no We are talking about that. Okay. Thanks very short follow-up about you were saying that you are working with all these other power plants Is there IEA staff already going over there? Or is it still remote has people have been going inspectors for example during the war? The last yes, okay. Yes Yes, thank you very much. Thanks for your time and we'll continue in that. Thank you