Nuclear accident in Southern Ukraine

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and then wait years to get the truth

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An exterior view of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is seen in the town of Enerhodar, eastern Ukraine, June 12, 2008.
Credit: REUTERS/Stringer
Ukraine energy minister says 'no threat' from accident at nuclear plant
KIEV Wed Dec 3, 2014 8:47am EST
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/03/us-ukraine-crisis-power-minister-idUSKCN0JH12M20141203

  "(Reuters) - Ukraine's energy authorities said on Wednesday that an
   accident at a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya in the south-east of
   the country posed no danger and the plant would return to normal
   operations on Dec. 5.

   "There is no threat ... there are no problems with the reactors,"
   Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn, who took up his post in a new
   government only on Tuesday, told a briefing.
   Demchyshyn, said the accident which happened on Friday in one of the
   six blocs at Zaporizhzhya, Europe's largest nuclear power plant, had
   been caused by a short circuit in the power outlet system and was "in
   no way" linked to power production.
   In Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had no
   immediate comment on the report.
   Under an international convention, adopted after the April 1986
   Chernobyl accident in what was then Soviet Ukraine, a country must
   notify the IAEA of any nuclear accident that can have an impact on
   other countries.
   The explosion and fire at the Chernobyl power plant, the world's worst
   nuclear accident, was caused by human error and a series of blasts sent
   a cloud of radioactive dust billowing across northern and western
   Europe.
   Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, have estimated the death toll at only a
   few thousand as a result of the explosion while the environmental group
   Greenpeace says the accident will eventually cause up to 93,000 extra
   cancer deaths worldwide.
   Interfax news agency said a 1,000-megawatt reactor was housed in the
   bloc at Zaporizhzhya where last Friday's accident occurred.
   Demchyshyn said the affected bloc had been provisionally disconnected
   from the electro-energy system though its reactor continued to work
   normally.
   "Its power output is not being used. I think that the problem will be
   resolved by Friday," he said.
   The accident has had a slight impact on Ukraine's energy system, but
   Demchyshyn said he would ask the major industrial consumers to impose a
   'voluntary restriction' in energy consumption.
   Ukraine produced more than 60 million tonnes of coal last year, making
   it self-sufficient in electricity and coal.
   Separatist fighting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions since June has
   halted production at 66 coal mines, however, leaving Ukrainian power
   plants without enough raw materials.

   (Reporting by Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk; Additional reporting
   by Fredrik Dahl in Vienna; Writing by Richard Balmforth)"