Alexey Likhachev

person · Rosatom Director GeneralCredibility: 30%

Why this score? Director General of Rosatom. His statements are authoritative evidence of Rosatom's declared position on the occupied Zaporizhzhia plant and unreliable as evidence about the plant's actual condition; he is the public voice of an interested occupying operator whose estimates have diverged from the on-site IAEA account. Set at the Rosatom organizational baseline. Record as a voice; never let him steer a summary.

Tracked Statements (1)

Rosatom has "full control" over the situation at the occupied Zaporizhzhia plant and holds very different estimates from the IAEA for how long it can run without external power.^?

— Alexey Likhachev · Aug 31, 2026

Topic: ukraine russia war/nuclear safety

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Context: Still untestable from outside: Rosatom has published no estimate to compare, and no independent party can audit “full control”. But since the claim the plant has halved its running generators and begun cooling intermittently to conserve fuel, while the IAEA's own margin shortened from about ten days to “within days”.