Rafael Grossi is the maximum responsible for international atomic energy. He himself has seen first-hand how the blowing up of the Nova Kajovka dam can affect the Zaporizhia power plant in Ukraine.

“One of the most serious consequences has been the decrease of water to cool the plant nuclear,” says Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He has spent hours inside looking for alternatives to avoid a disaster.

A team from laSexta went to the Zaporizhia Institute of Radiology.

“From this place is where the scientists are monitoring in real time what are the radiation levels in the zone. Especially since Zaporizhia is very close to that big nuclear power plant that is in Energodar. The largest nuclear power plant in Europe, which is under Russian control and there is fear that an accident could occur,” says Alberto Sicilia, special envoy of laSexta to Ukraine.

In case that happens, there they will be in charge of detecting the danger and deciding how to act. Luba, director of the laboratory, shows iodine pill that they would have to ingest in a supposed emergency.

With a mobile unit they control the radiation in each point of the city because an accident would serious problems that would go far beyond the area in which it originates.

“The radioactive plume would spread to countries like Moldova or Romania,” says Taras Tyschenko, Zaporizhia’s director of public health. He would be responsible for coordinating the operation in case of escape, a disaster of unforeseeable consequences that has the international community in suspense.