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All Chernobyl staff who wanted to leave are out, U.N. nuclear watchdog says -Breaking

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO A view of the New Safe Confinement structure (NSC), over the old Sarcophagus that covered the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s fourth reactor, Chernobyl Ukraine. November 22, 2018. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo

By Francois Murphy

VIENNA (Reuters – On Monday, U.N. nuclear watchdog stated that the remaining members of Chernobyl’s technical staff from the last month of Russian occupation have been released.

Three weeks ago, the Ukraine facilities next to the no longer-operational power plant, which in 1986 had suffered the worst nuclear accident, were being operated by just one shift of staff. The Russian forces assumed control over the facility on February 24, 2014. All of them were still unable leave the premises until Sunday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has stated for weeks that this situation meant the personnel on duty are exhausted and under severe pressure. This was putting a greater risk to site safety. They were asked to be replaced.

The IAEA stated in a statement that Ukraine’s regulatory agency said approximately half the technical staff who were leaving the scene of the 1986 accident had left yesterday. All the others followed them today with the exception 13 staff members who refused to rotate.

According to the IAEA’s Ukrainian regulator, many of the Ukrainian guards present at the site since the seized Ukrainian regulator were also there. According to the agency, there are 211 guards and technical personnel at the site.

IAEA stated that the Ukrainian regulatory agency has replaced the technical staff who had left.

According to an IAEA statement, “The new shift… has two supervisors rather than the usual one in order to ensure there is backup on-site,”

According to the IAEA, this was also reported by the Ukrainian regulator.

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