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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant Accident

 Zaporozhskaya nuclear plant (Photo from www.npp.zp.ua)
Ukraine's energy authorities said on Wednesday Dec 03,2014 that an accident at a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya in the south-east of the country posed no danger and the plant would return to normal operations on Friday Dec. 5,2014
"There is no threat ... there are no problems with the reactors," Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn, who took up his post in a new government only on Tuesday, told a briefing.

Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn,said the accident which happened on Friday Nov 28,2014 in one of the six blocs at Zaporizhzhya, Europe's largest nuclear power plant, had been caused by a short circuit in the power outlet system and was "in no way" linked to power production.

In Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had no immediate comment on the report.

Under an international convention, adopted after the April 1986 Chernobyl accident in what was then Soviet Ukraine, a country must notify the IAEA of any nuclear accident that can have an impact on other countries

The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe
Nuclear fault: The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe and suffered an accident earlier this week, according to premier Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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