The press Secretary of the Zaporizhzhya NPP: disabling unit is not dangerous
The situation with turning off the unit at the Zaporizhzhya NPP is not outside the normal operational practices and international scale events at nuclear power plants has zero risk, said a spokesman for Zaporizhzhya NPP Sergey Simchi.
The power unit? 6 Zaporizhzhya NPP eventually trigger protection internal damage to the generator was disconnected from the network on December 28, 05. 59. At this point in time there were 5 units with a total capacity 4530 MW. Background radiation at the site and within the sanitary protective area (the area around the plant with a radius of 2, 5 kilometres) - 8-12 micro-roentgen per hour, which corresponds to the natural radiation background at the location of the Zaporizhzhya NPP.
" The situation, which is done at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, is not beyond the powers of normal operating practices. The situation has a zero level on the international scale events at nuclear power plants", said on Sunday Simonw on Ukrainian TV channel " 112 ".
He added that " such problems happen from time to time, as the unit costs of many items.