An accident at Ukraine’s Zaporizhye nuclear power plant has forced the shutdown of a reactor but posed no danger, government officials said on Wednesday.
Ukrainian Prime minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said a 1,000-megawatt reactor at the power plant in southeastern Ukraine had been shut down following an unspecified accident on November 28 and asked Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn to hold a press briefing on the issue.
“I know that an accident has occurred at the Zaporizhye NPP,” Reuters quoted Yatsenyuk as saying.
Demchyshyn then told a briefing that the accident posed no danger to the population and that the plant would resume operations as …read more
Source: Novinite
