Turbine closed after water leakage at Lithuanian nuclear plant

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

Turbine closed after water leakage at Lithuanian nuclear plant  

VILNIUS, Feb 18 (AFP) - One of four turbines at Lithuania's Ignalina 
Nuclear Power Plant has been turned off after a water leakage, 
state-owned Lithuanian Energy announced Thursday. Director 
General of the nuclear plant Viktor Sevaldin told AFP  the turbine 
was suspended Wednesday because of a leakage of cold water 
from the system. Sevaldin said it was a minor technical problem 
which does not  fall under international classification of incidents 
and had no effect on environmental radiation levels. Ignalina 
Nuclear power plant is equiped with Chernobyl type RBMK 
reactors. It is the only of its kind kind in the Baltic states and 
supplies 70 to 80 percent of Lithuania's electricity supply. The 
Chernobyl nuclear power station, in the Ukraine, was the  site of 
the most serious nuclear accident in history, on April 26, 1986.

Sandy Perle
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