The fire occurred at night on Friday on the square South-Ukrainian nuclear power plant, in the town of Yuzhnoukrainsk, Mykolaiv oblast, said the press service of the regional Department of the state service for emergency situations of Ukraine. The fire broke out in a light yard autotransformer connection, which was burned. In the transformer at the time of the fire was 70 tons of oil. The total burned area of about 100 square Meters. A letter of fire cooler inside the transformer NPP did at 22. 04. The elimination of a fire took an hour and a half, according to a report on the Internet office of the Main Department of state service for emergency situations of Ukraine in the Mykolaiv region. In the document, which was published by the office of the state emergency services in the Mykolaiv region, indicated that the cause of the fire was razgermetizatsija transformer tank and the oil Fire from an electric arc due to the small circuit. The document was signed by head of the NPP Vladimir Lisnichenko. According to him, the 1st and second units are in operation, the third is scheduled repair. The dead and received damage by fire, reports RIA " Novosti ".