Ukraine: generating set shut down at Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant

Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Political Publication date: 2000-10-11

Text of report by Ukrainian news agency UNIAN Kiev, 11th October: The No 3 generating set at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was disconnected from the national power grid at 0147 today [2247 gmt, Tuesday, 10th October] for scheduled repairs, as UNIAN news agency has learnt at the information centre of the nuclear control department of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.

The repairs will be completed by 24th December, while they are planning to load fresh nuclear fuel into the plant's reactor during this period.

Currently, repair works are under way at the No 5 generating set at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and at the No 3 generating set of the South-Ukrainian nuclear power plant. The repairs at the No 5 generating set in Zaporizhzhya, previously scheduled for completion on 9th October, have been extended for three days. They have loaded fresh nuclear fuel at the No 3 generating set of the South-Ukrainian nuclear power plant, while the plant's reactor has been examined by IAEA inspectors and it has been made more leakproof.

The Khmelnytskyy nuclear power plant has asked the country's energy controlling agency to be allowed to stop the plant's No 1 generating set in order to eliminate a fault in the turbine department, which caused a leak of non-radioactive water. It is expected that the generating set will be halted for unscheduled repairs as soon as the No 5 generating set at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is brought back into operation. Preoperational tests are being performed there at the moment.

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-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), October 14, 2000