WASHINGTON, April 22. /TASS/. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi has said that the fact that the agency’s experts have access to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) to monitor the situation around it is "invaluable." "I wouldn't say that it is indifferent that we are there. Anything could happen at that plant. But we have our people, and we had several occasions where the plant was either shelled or attacked with drones. Or you may remember, last summer there was this, the cooling tower up in flames," he said at a seminar organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, a US independent think tank, in Washington. "So, there were very, very critical moments where the fact that the IAEA could immediately say what was going on, if there was a danger in terms of radiological levels and things like that, was, you know, invaluable," he emphasized. Located in the city of Energodar, the Zaporozhye NPP is Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and has six power units with an aggregate capacity of 6 GW, which are now in a state of cold shutdown and are not generating energy. Russian forces took control of the facility in February 2022. Since then, Ukrainian troops have been periodically shelling both the city and the plant’s territory. IAEA experts have been permanently present at the facility since September 2022, rotating regularly.