There was panic last night after a blaze tore through a Ukrainian nuclear power plant reactor built in the same year as the Chernobyl nuke disaster.
Videos show the alarming inferno at Rivne power plant in the ex-Soviet republic as emergency teams battled to bring high flames and toxic black smoke under control.
As a result, the nuclear power plant had to be be shut down after it was engulfed in flames.
Toxic black smoke could be seen filling the sky above the nuke plant in the dramatic video footage.
The overnight blaze broke out in the transformer of the third reactor unit at …read more
Source: Protothema
