MELITOPOL, April 16. /TASS/. The 18th group of rotating inspectors consisting of four safety experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), a senior official told TASS.

"The rotation [of IAEA inspectors] has taken place. Everything is in order," Yevgeniya Yashina, a ZNPP communications director, said.

According to the plant's Telegram channel, the 18th IAEA team of experts includes four inspectors from Pakistan, Finland and South Africa. Their task, as before, is to observe and assess the state of the plant's safety (both operational and physical).

The plant's management recalled that IAEA experts have been working at the ZNPP since September 1, 2022, after the first visit of the agency's Director General Rafael Grossi to the plant.

"All this time we have developed working constructive relations with the IAEA. The presence of experts at the ZNPP is a positive factor in ensuring the safety of the plant. Especially now - in view of the escalation of the situation around the plant on the part of the enemy," the press service quoted the plant's director Yury Chernichuk as saying.

The 17th group of IAEA inspectors arrived at the plant on March 12.