Grossi, some IAEA experts leave territory of Zaporizhzhya NPP

ENERHODAR. Sept 1 (Interfax) - Four of the nine road vehicles of the motorcade of the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have left the territory of the nuclear power plant in Enerhodar on the Russia-controlled territory of the Zaporizhzhya region, an Interfax correspondent has reported.

The IAEA experts thus spent some four hours on the territory of the plant.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said during a meeting with Enerhodar residents that some experts will stay at the plant.

Grossi himself has left the nuclear power plant. Before the departure, he issued an address to the experts remaining on the territory, thanking them for their courage and wishing them good work.

Earlier, Grossi said that the IAEA delegation has seen enough to conduct a primary assessment of the situation at the Zaporizhzhya NPP.

Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Main Council in the military-civilian administration of the Zaporizhzhya region, said earlier on Thursday that "the IAEA mission traveling by nine white Toyota off-road vehicles protected by capsule armor passed through the checkpoint in Vasylivka and headed to Enerhodar."

The Zaporizhzhya NPP is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. It operates six VVER-1000 reactor units, the first of which was put into operation in December 1984 and the sixth in October 1995.

According to the regional authorities, only Unit 5 and Unit 6 of the NPP have been running, at 60% and 80% of their capacity, respectively, and supplying power to Ukraine in the recent days.

The full program of the IAEA mission has not been officially published.