Power units No. 2 and No. 3 of the Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 29 The United States considers a controlled shutdown of its reactors to be the safest solution to the Zaporizhzhya NPP problem, John Kirby, US National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator, said at a briefing on Monday. shutting down the reactors at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant would be the safest and least risky solution,» Kirby said in a telephone briefing. Earlier Monday, the head of the IAEA said the organization's mission was already on its way to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant and would arrive on site this week. Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, told RIA Novosti that the mission departed in the morning and included about a dozen employees of the IAEA secretariat dealing with safeguards and nuclear safety. They are accompanied by a large team of UN staff dealing with logistics and security issues. ZNPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper near Energodar. This is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity. Since March, it has been under the protection of the Russian military. The Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized the justification for the Russian military to take protection of the power plant from the point of view of preventing leaks of nuclear and radioactive materials. 2022/08/b6f880feeb96877108e53915ebf4bef3.jpg» />The United States said they did not know where the projectiles at the Zaporozhye NPP came from
