Canada allocates $6 million for nuclear safety in Ukraine

 

"To help strengthen nuclear safety in Ukraine, Canada has provided $1 million to the IAEA to strengthen security, safety, and safeguards at Ukrainian nuclear facilities, $5 million to the US State Department to help Ukraine detect and respond to illicit nuclear trafficking in its territory," Canada’s Permanent Mission to the UN stated, Ukrinform reports.

 

The diplomats also emphasized that the continued occupation of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant “places the global population at risk.”

“Continued destabilization by Russian forces not only increases the risk of an accident or inadvertent damage but also increases the possibility of diversion of nuclear material,” the mission stressed.