Ukraine PM discloses accident at nuclear plant
Ukraine's energy minister said Wednesday an accident at a nuclear power plant in southeast Ukraine posed no danger and that the plant would return to running as normal on Friday. Volodymyr Demchishin said a short circuit at a power-generating unit in the Zaporozhiya plant led to a drop in electricity production. He said the problem occurred in the electricity transmission system and not in the reactor. "There is no threat ... there are no problems with the reactors," Demchyshyn said at a briefing. He added that the accident affected the power output system and was "in no way" linked to power production itself. The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna 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 agency of any nuclear accidents that can impact other countries.
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