“Our technical and scientific assessment of the results we have so far has shown no sign of nuclear activity or undeclared material at these three sites,” IAEA head Rafael Grossi said in a statement. These were the Institute of Nuclear Research in Kiev, a mining and processing plant in Zhovti Vody and a machine-building plant in Dnipropetrovsk.
The inspectors were able to carry out their planned work in recent days and were given unlimited access to the locations, it says. They also took samples from the area. The results of the analysis of those samples will be communicated as soon as possible, Grossi said.
A dirty bomb consists of radioactive material that is dispersed with conventional explosives. Unlike a nuclear bomb, there is no nuclear chain reaction. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of wanting to use a radioactive weapon “to later say that Russia has committed a nuclear attack”.
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