Breaking per Drudge - Nuclear Incident in Ukraine

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REPORT: KIEV UKRAINE TV Station "Slovayusk" is currently broadcasting - 19:45 local time - that there is an on-going NUCLEAR INCIDENT OCCURRING at the Reactor in Rovno (Russian spelling) or Rivne (Ukraine spelling), located in western Ukraine... Developing...

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Answers

Don't like the sound of that. Had a quick look around, didn't see anything on BBC or ET, will keep checking. Do we know if there's a Chernobyl-type reactor there?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

My question is, how bad does it have to be for Russia tv to broadcast this information?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Damn! someone posted a map once that showed where nuke power plants were worldwide. sure wish I still had that link!

On the upside, at least it ain't in my backyard!

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001


No, but depending on wind direction, it might be in your milk soon!

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

"it might be in your milk soon" Strontium 90. I don't recall any easy fix for that other than giving up milk for a while.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001


Rovno

City, Country - Kuynetsovsk, Rivne, Ukraine

Number & type of Reactors - 2 VVER 440, 1 VVER-1000 (1 unfinished VVER 1000)

Net Electric Power as % in 92 of national total 1818 MWe 6.41% of nat. total

Major population Centers in a 150 km radius and total estimated population of 150 km r. region - Approximately 2 million, including Lutsk and Pinsk, and parts of Belorus and Poland

Date of commercial operation start up or (if unfinished) date of construction start - Startup dates: 1980, 1981, 1986

Operator/Builder - UKRATOMENERGOPROM - operator/builder

Accidents and Dangers:

1984: Leakage of construction liquids created cavities in the chalk rock below the reactor. Construction of all blocks was halted while concrete was poured beneath their foundations. In 1984, there were also a number of radioactivity releases. In 1990, a rotor malfunctioned, causing the shutdown of reactor 3.

Key Arguments/History

At the end of the 1980s, the USSR Ministry of Energy considered the possibility of closing down the Rovno plants because there was a danger that subsidence of the chalk rock on which they were built would damage the foundations of the plants. The problem was partially solved by the filling of cavities under the reactors with concrete, but this continues to make trouble.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001


Hopefully this is it...

Link

Falling crane shuts Ukraine nuke plant

KIEV, Ukraine, April 11 (UPI) -- A construction crane fell on two transformers at Ukraine's Rivne nuclear power plant Wednesday, forcing the plant to shut down, officials in Kiev said Wednesday night.

According to the duty engineer at the Rivne power plant, nobody was hurt in the incident and there was no increase in radiation.

An investigation has started into the crane's sudden collapse. --

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001


Oh, good, that's all it was.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Link

Wed Apr 11 2001 17:08:46 ET

A fire at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant Wednesday led to the automatic shutdown of two reactors, but no radiation was released and the fire was extinguished, news reports said.

Ukraine's private One Plus One television and the ITAR-Tass news agency reported that the fire started when the boom of a crane fell on six electrical cables at the Rivne plant, at the site where the plant's No. 4 reactor is under construction.

The fire damaged two transformers and led to automatic safety systems shutting down reactors No. 2 and No. 3. Reactor No. 1 is under repairs.

No one was injured and there was no release of radiation, the reports said. Officials at the Emergencies Ministry and at the company that runs the power plants were not available.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001


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