The International Atomic Energy Agency said radiation detectors in the area of ​​the Chernobyl nuclear power plant “transmitted data” again, for the first time since the start of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine.

“Dozens of radiation detectors are again transmitting data from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant area after Ukraine, with the technical support of the International Atomic Energy Agency, managed to repair the data transmission line, which was cut more than a year ago,” the agency said. After 100 days, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Accident and Emergency Center began receiving radiation measurements from the exclusion zone created after the Chernobyl accident in 1986, noting that “the radiation monitoring network in the region has been shut down.” runs February 24th.

For his part, the Director General of the Agency, Rafael Grossi, confirmed that “most of the 39 detectors transmitting data from the exclusion zone, which extends 30 kilometers around the nuclear power plant, are now visible on the map of the International Radiation Monitoring Information System and have been updated, as before the outage. “Measurements obtained so far show that radiation levels are consistent with levels measured before the conflict.”