INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday it has received reports of artillery shells damaging a nuclear research facility in
Ukraine's besieged second city Kharkiv, but there was no "radiological consequence."The Vienna-based UN body said Ukrainian authorities
reported an attack took place on Sunday, adding that no increase in radiation levels had been reported at the site.Because the site's
"inventory of radioactive material is very low" and kept at a "subcritical" state, the IAEA said "the damage reported to it would not have
had any radiological consequence."The facility is part of the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, a research institute that
produces radioactive material for medical and industrial applications.Kharkiv has come under intense Russian shelling and missile attacks in
recent days, as Moscow tries to step up pressure on Ukraine to surrender.The nuclear institute itself has been at the center of online
weapon capable of causing mass casualties.The IAEA said this was just the latest instance of a nuclear facility becoming caught up in
Russia's war on Ukraine."We have already had several episodes compromising safety at Ukraine's nuclear sites," said IAEA director
general Rafael Mariano Grossi.There have been reports of damage to radioactive waste disposal facilities near Kyiv and Kharkiv and Russian
