The third power unit it is southern-the Ukrainian nuclear power plant (NPP), on which the fuel is used in the American Westinghouse organization connected to the network after Troubleshooting, informs on Thursday " Energoatom ".

last Saturday auto-protect turned off the generator at the 3rd power unit it is southern-the Ukrainian nuclear power plant. According to the Firm, after conducting recovery and high-voltage testing of the excitation system of the generator in the night of Tuesday, the Third unit of South-Ukrainian NPP was connected to the grid. However, the station had problems again, and the unit had to disable. With increasing power of the power unit of 400 MW was found a defect on the equipment unit's turbine division? 3 - abnormality in the control valve supplying steam to the moisture separator-reheater.

"fifteen April at eleven. 01 unit? 3 is southern-the Ukrainian nuclear power plant connected to the network after the current recovery, " - said in the report.

in General on April 16 at nuclear power plants of Ukraine are in operation in 12 out of fifteen units. The previous day, April fifteen, the stations produced 238, 4 million kWh of electricity. Radiation, fire and ecological condition at the industrial sites of the NPP? In the normal range.

NPP is situated on the banks of the southern bug in Yuzhnoukrainsk the Nikolaev area. The station has 3 nuclear power unit VVER-1000 reactors with a total installed electrical capacity of 3000 MW.

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