Malfunction prompts shutdown of Ukrainian reactor

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

KIEV, Aug 11 (Reuters) - A nuclear reactor at the Zaporizhska power 
plant in central Ukraine was switched off on Friday due to the 
malfunction of one of its systems, the national nuclear company 
Energoatom said in a statement. 

It said the station's number three unit, equipped with a Soviet-made 
VVER-1000 reactor, had been shut down at 0458 GMT due to a fault in 
its steam generator system. It said there had been no increase in 
radiation levels. 

Fourteen years after the explosion at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear 
plant, the world's worst nuclear disaster, the country of 50 million 
still relies on nuclear power for almost half of its electricity. 

Five of Ukraine's 14 operational nuclear reactors are currently under 
repair, the company said. 

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