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east of you controlled by the russian occupy, you forces creating as she treyjen, whereby you have a cohabitation of the operators, people, the ukranian people in police and, and professional experts that have been working there. and they are all, there is also presence from russian nuclear experts and also military forces. we, we don't put in fully red for one reason. and it, yeah and, and it is that the plant continues to operate and that is a professional herb herb modest vivendi, if you, if i can put it like that they work together. and the plant, as it is obvious, because it has been operating 2 units as of today are still operating, including unit number 5, which was crammed
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a couple of days ago. and now is back in operation. so the, all the, the physical conditions are there and the plant continues to operate. the same bag code we are applying to offsite power supply. this has also been a matter of enormous concern and interest around the world. because as you know, if you don't have of site power supply, the cooling systems for the reactors cannot work if they can. and if they cannot work, these can lead to a major accident. we have seen on several occasions that there have been there blackouts or interruptions, or one or 2 or 3 of the lines feeding the plant from outside at the moment that he's at the there are 2 operations. and what,
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what we know also is that when there was one situation of a total complete blackout, the diesel generators operated, normally, we visited, then i saw them. i was talking to those in charge of that part of the operation of the plat, logistical aspect, and supply chain. this is important in terms of the replacement you have to think about is a breach. yeah. which is the biggest nuclear power power plant in europe. also as a big industrial facility, as an in any industrial facility you need spare parts are things that need to be replaced and so on and so forth. given the anomalous situation of a war, it is obvious that logistical chains are interrupted. we were quite probing about did about this, we were discussing with people on site and the impression that they gave us is that a here, there are no major problems. there are some interruptions,
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hence the quantification we are booting here. and in the case of their radiation monitoring, an emergency response, we have, we have had some complete interruptions, hence the half red situation, but also some systems are working well. so we, we do see a mixed a mixed bag in terms of rely on communications. we the regulator, it is also an operating a function with some difficulties. so this gives you a birds eye view of the, of a situation which we are of course not wanting to ban allies in any way we believe. and i continue to believe that dissertation is extremely complex, extremely challenging, and it will continue to require the permanent, the permanent support and the monitoring that we are trying to provide now that we
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are this. so now that i gave you this general overview, i am open to your questions. thank you very much now, but hope for you know, now you didn't know people are yes. yes. yes, the war when i started with the easiest part so that the the, those who are there will continue to be there at the end of the war. we all wish for that. we hope it happens soon. we don't know. we believe that it was important
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. it was important for the agency to be there permanently. yes. and, and this is a good segue for your 1st, the 1st part of the course you are seeing what do you know now that you didn't know before? we knew a lot, but of course our trade is inspecting the difference between being there and not being there is like day and night show, excuse me, show many things we had information including remote data transmission set up. but when he comes to many other things that i important, it's very different to go now i saw and as, as dizzy, but also my technical experts, things that were being said, and we were able to assess their seriousness of them. and what are the questions?
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you can get buried with the inspections in the safe gutter? you see something then you ask something else. so we know much more and we are learning even more as we speak. yeah. well we are getting this information all the time as well. we have been getting it from the very beginning. and now we are trying to have an in depth assessment of how things stand at the moment. i expect to produce every port a early next week, and as soon as we have the full picture of the situation by the end of the weekend, morris. yeah. so we are, we are fine and i'm happy to be back home here
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the blunt is operating. that is a professional relationship between these experts. they are all nuclear experts show. they know what they are doing. they are not what they are talking about. but they are human beings. and they have sites on a wall based affecting them and their families. so this situation is one of our, i would say it's admirable for, for the ukrainian experts to continue to work in this conditions in their way. they are doing they care for their facility. they work very, very well. but of course, that he said that he's a pension, but he's a latent attention there because of the obvious reasons are of, of the war. so i would say this is something that needs to be must be
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m dealt with enormous caution or and again, our presence there is or has it in bay beak added value. i believe because we can interact with people constantly, frequently throughout days. they know that the people are there. so i think it is very important that we have this a, this presence there. i missed something of your question. yeah. i what, what is the most? well, well, you know, i think we have to be looking at the, the, the main points and when it comes to their main points, 1st of all is the physical integrity while are and here i don't, i will, i will not get into that, but i will simply mention that it is obvious that there is
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a lot of fighting in the region in general in this part of ukraine. so the military activity and operations are increasing in that part of the country. and these war is me a lot these war is me. a lot of there are references to offensive counter offensives. i don't want to get into that because it's not my domain, but it's obvious and we all know it and everybody acknowledges it on the on site. so it is obvious that the statistical possibility of more physical damage it is, it is present. let me give you an example of the physical damage to the plant with the exception of the event on the night of the 3rd
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to the 4th of march with this fire, the shelling actually started in august. so it is quite clearly a more, a more recent trend if i can coordinate like that. so what we see with this increase of military activity is that the physical integrity is more a compromise. and with that we, i take you to fall, i take you to the, to the power supply. because it is clear that those who have these aims is military aims. know very well that are the, the way to cripple or to, or to do more damage is not to look into the reactors which are enormously sturdy and robust. but to, you know, hit where it hurts. so the plant becomes a, you know, very,
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very problematic. so my main concern would be, you know, the physical integrity would be the power supply and of course the stuff or so these are the areas, the rest are things that we can work on. radiation systems, supply chain, all very, very important. all very important. but of course, they have a lesser degree if you want of dramatize and when it comes to what if i have to address your question directly? i think the next you call them is not wrong. oh la la la bills law. well ok, how? sure i am, i will, you know, i can,
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we can never be sure what we need to do is to always try and to improve. if you look at what we have now, it is far, far better. that would be used to cap. now i have by people, i was there and we have a big team there. we have people who are going to stay there. these has tremendous value. this is a huge difference. and of course, if something happens or is if, if any limitation word comes, they are going to be reporting it. they're reporting it to us. it is no longer a matter of a said these and be said the contrary. now the i e a is there and this is like i said from night to day in terms of the people being there, it naturally for me the safety of my people is the 1st thing you remember that i
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said i will never send somebody to a place where i don't go myself 1st and this is what i have been doing. now that we know that we have a certain degree as a system that is working. we have our people there and it has been very challenging. of course we are. we are looking at this, they are in constant communication with us is something happens of course we will take the necessary measures. joey through there. yes. for next week some at some point with yes. yes, yes. or come back to with? well, there are logistic aspects related to that,
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but they are going to continue to count and thank you for the question, because i want to recognize the support that we received from the united nations department of safety security. we have incredibly good people there that are coming from the most, you know, difficult hotspots in the world. and they were accompanying us and guiding us through what they themselves freak of nice was a very challenging thing. so they are going to of course, to continue to have the support update or of course, of course yes, charlie a girl. what do you mean? sorry, by the inner circle of.
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