Rafael Mariano Grossi

person · IAEA Director GeneralCredibility: 92%

Why this score? Director General of the IAEA and the named author of the numbered situation-in-Ukraine updates. Speaking officially he is the institutional voice of the only body with a monitoring team inside the Zaporizhzhia plant, and his updates are careful to separate what the team observed from what the plant reported. Just below the IAEA organizational baseline (0.95): the residual discount is for the diplomatic caution of a role that depends on both belligerents' cooperation to keep the mission in place.

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The frequent interruptions to the plant’s two power lines, leading to its reliance on emergency diesel generators, pose serious risks. They violate both the Seven Indispensable Pillars for ensuring nuclear safety and security during an armed conflict and the Five Concrete Principles for protecting the ZNPP.^✓

— Rafael Mariano Grossi · Sep 7, 2026

Topic: ukraine russia war/nuclear safety

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Context: Said to the IAEA Board of Governors on September 7. The underlying facts are the Agency’s own: ten losses of off-site power since June, twenty-six since 2022. It names the instruments violated but not who is violating them, and no such determination has been published.