Ukraine energy minister says accident at nuclear plant poses "no threat"

VUkraine's Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said on Wednesday an accident at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant (NPP) in southeast Ukraine posed no danger and that the plant would return to running as normal on Dec. 5.

December 03, 2014

Dr. Saeed Al-Fakieh

 


 


KIE — VUkraine's Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said on Wednesday an accident at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant (NPP) in southeast Ukraine posed no danger and that the plant would return to running as normal on Dec. 5.



"There is no threat ... there are no problems with the reactors," Demchyshyn said at briefing, saying the accident affected the power output system and "in no way" was linked to power production itself.



In Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had no immediate comment on the report. Under an international convention, adopted after the 1986 Chernobyl accident in what was then Soviet Ukraine, a country should notify the IAEA of any nuclear accident that can impact other countries. — Reuters


December 03, 2014
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