For the second time in a Month, Ukraine has disabled one of the six units on one of the most powerful existing nuclear power plants - Zaporozhye - due to electrical faults, forcing you to recall the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, says.

A month ago, a short circuit was on the 3rd unit of Zaporizhzhya NPP, which led to the outage in the number of settlements of Ukraine. The message of the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk about the " disaster " at the Zaporizhzhya NPP did not go unnoticed, because the word " accident " in the Soviet press has been named disaster, which is done at Chernobyl in April 1986.

The Parallels With the current situation in Ukraine, " torn by conflicts, obvious, says The Independent, noting that the press-Secretary of the Zaporizhzhya NPP Sergey Simchi said, what would have happened " an exaggeration " to read off a serious accident and that on an international scale events at nuclear power plants has zero risk.

Despite the fact that nuclear power plants, according to the press service, protected from possible attacks, the location of the plant in relative proximity to the conflict zone in the end, concern, writes The Independent. So, in may, the militants " Right sector " tried to penetrate to the site of the NPP, however, the local police managed to stop them.


Zaporizhzhya NPP in Ukraine is almost the biggest nuclear power plants in the European Union With six units. Conclusion the construction of Zaporizhzhya NPP has been adopted by the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1977. Since 1979 the construction of the station has become a head in a series of nuclear power plants, built on a unified project.

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