FYI - new nuclear power plant online

[maury@webtexas.com (Maurice Siskel)]

Can one of you say if the design of the plant reported below has any
design or operational similarity to the Chernobyl facility?
Maury Siskel      maury@webtexas.com

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MOCHOVCE NUCLEAR PLANT BECOMES FULLY  OPERATIONAL 

Slovakia's controversial Mochovce nuclear plant is to be fully
operational by 28 August, a spokesman for the plant told Reuters
on the previous day. The plant will have to run at full production
output without any interruption for six days before it is allowed to
start the so-called "trial period," the spokesman said. The Mochovce
plant has been supplying electricity to the national grid
since it first started up in July, triggering strong protests in
neighboring Austria, which considers the Soviet-designed plant to
be potentially unsafe. A second reactor at the plant is expected to
begin operating some time before September 1999. ITAR-TASS
reported on 27 August that acting Minister for Atomic Energy
Evgenii Adamov will attend a ceremony at the plant and will
conduct talks with Slovak leaders on nuclear energy cooperation.
MS  RFE-RL

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