Ukraine: Reactor at Chernobyl power plant stopped for repairs on faulty weld in reactor safety unit

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Ukraine: Reactor at Chernobyl power plant stopped for repairs

Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Political Publication date: Feb 12, 2000

Text of report by Ukrainian television on 12th February

[0130-0210] [Presenter Svitlana Leontyeva] The No 3 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station has been stopped for unplanned repairs. We recall that the reactor was stopped a weekago over a fault. This time the stop was caused, according to the State Nuclear Control Administration, by a fault in a weld of the reactor's safety unit. Eight such units produced in France were installed last year under a programme to improve the station's security. The Chernobyl nuclear power station's press service said that the company producing these units will replace the faulty unit with a new one. It is planned that, after the unit is replaced, the No 3 generating set will be reconnected to the power grid on 16th February. Publication date: Feb 12, 2000 ) 2000, NewsReal, Inc.

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