MELITOPOL, March 2. /TASS/. Three inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have arrived at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on a rotation basis to relieve the outgoing team of inspectors, Renat Karchaa, an adviser to the director general of Rosenergoatom, told TASS on Thursday.
"IAEA inspectors have arrived at the plant. A total of seven people came: Three are IAEA specialists and four are UN security department staff," he said.
Karchaa told TASS earlier that the rotations had been planned for February 7, 10 and 18, respectively, but that the UN security department disrupted the rotation process on all three dates in February, although Russia provided all security guarantees.
An IAEA mission led by Director General Rafael Grossi visited the ZNPP in September 2022, leaving several agency employees on site as observers. Afterward, the agency published a report calling for the establishment of a safety zone around the ZNPP to prevent accidents arising from hostilities. The first rotation of an expert inspection team at the ZNPP took place in October 2022.