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• 2001.04.13 | Rost

  from www.thepost.kyiv.ua

  Fire shuts down reactors at Ukrainian nuclear power plant, no radiation released
  The Associated Press
  
  
  KYIV, April 11 - A fire at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant Wednesday led to the automatic shutdown of two reactors, but no radiation was released and the fire was extinguished, news reports said.
  Ukraine's private One Plus One television and the ITAR-Tass news agency reported that the fire started when the boom of a crane fell on six electrical cables at the Rivne plant, at the site where the plant's No. 4 reactor is under construction.
  
  The fire damaged two transformers and led to automatic safety systems shutting down reactors No. 2 and No. 3. Reactor No. 1 is under repairs.
  
  No one was injured and there was no release of radiation, the reports said. Officials at the Emergencies Ministry and at the company that runs the power plants were not available.
  
  The No. 3 reactor at Rivne was temporarily shut down April 4 due to a steam leak. No radiation was released in that incident, either.
  
  Ukraine was the site of world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded and spewed radiation over much of Europe. The last working reactor at the Chernobyl plant was shut down in December, and Ukraine has been pressing ahead with construction of the No. 4 reactor at Rivne, begun during the Soviet period, and of another reactor at the Khmelnitsky plant to make up for the lost electricity.
  
  Ukraine, which faced severe international pressure to close the last Chernobyl reactor, has been pressing European countries to provide financing to finish the Rivne and Khmelnytskyi reactors, so far without success. Environmentalists have attacked the plants as unnecessary and unsafe.
  
  Nuclear plants provide about 40 percent of Ukraine's electricity.
  
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