Nuke breakdown played down
From correspondents in Kiev, Ukraine
August 13, 2004
THE Ukrainian authorities today sought to play down a series of incidents which disabled a brand new nuclear reactor, saying there was no cause for concern and accusing the media of being alarmist.
The reactor at Khmelnitsky power station had to be shut down on Sunday, less than two hours after it went into operation, Interfax news agency reported on yesterday.
Further technical failures prevented it operating on Monday and Tuesday.
"These incidents do not represent any threat to the public or to the environment," state nuclear energy company Energoatom said in a statement.
Ukraine was the scene of the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster in 1986, when a reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station exploded, contaminating large areas in Ukraine and neighbouring Belarus and Russia. (snip)
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10430039%255E1702,00.html
Someone bring those guys a training manual and some investigators...sound good?
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