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Re: Fwd: Ukraine shuts down nuclear reactor after fire: report
In the "old days," i.e., USSR, would this information
be posted? I think not.
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> From: "Gerry Blackwood" <gpblackwood@justice.com>
> Subject: Ukraine shuts down nuclear reactor after
> fire: report
> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:03:48 -0800 (PST)
>
> Ukraine shuts down nuclear reactor after fire:
> report
>
>
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040106123318.ye7ad0h4.html
>
> KIEV (AFP) Jan 06, 2004
> Ukrainian authorities shut down a reactor at a
> nuclear
> plant at Rivne, in the west of the country, after a
> fire broke out in a transformer, but no
> radioactivity
> was released in the incident, the daily Segondya
> reported Tuesday.
> The fire at reactor number one occurred late Sunday.
> It
> was rapidly put out and the reactor was shut down
> immediately, the newspaper said.
>
> Officials at Rivne were not available to comment on
> the
> report as Tuesday was a bank holiday in Ukraine.
>
> The Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Monday reported
> the
> shutdown but said it was caused by a breakdown in a
> transformer.
>
> A commission has been set up to investigate the
> causes
> of the fire, Segodnya said.
>
> The reactor will be reactivated in the next few days
> after the transformer has been repaired, Interfax
> reported.
>
> The plant has three VVER-440 heavy water reactors. A
> fourth block is currently under construction and is
> expected to come onstream later this year.
>
> Ukraine's four nuclear power plants provide roughly
> half of its power requirement.
>
> In April 1986 a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear
> power
> plant in northern Ukraine caught fire, causing the
> world's worst nuclear disaster.
>
> The plant was closed down in December 2000 after the
> international community offered substantial
> financial
> aid.
>
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