Sunday, September 17, 2000 1:45 PM
UPI Report: Nuclear Disaster Barely Averted in Russia
HOT OFF THE PRESS. As nuclear plants age more of this kind of
thing can be expected.
Report: Nuclear Disaster Barely Averted in Russia
UPI
Sunday, Sept. 17, 2000
LONDON - Russian power plant workers prevented a Chernobyl-style
nuclear accident last week, the Guardian of London newspaper
reported Sunday. Russian officials admitted that several nuclear
installations were shut down briefly because of an electricity
failure. Nuclear experts said "courageous" workers at the
Beloyarsk power station and the Mayak plant in the Ural Mountains
had managed to avert a serious nuclear accident.
"The problem was that the diesel generators were in poor
condition," said Vladimir Slivyak, co-chairman of the Ecodefense
organization, which has spent the past week gathering information
on the mishap. He praised power plant workers for their "heroic"
efforts.
"We were just half an hour from another Chernobyl, had it not
been for the professionalism of the plant staff," said Alexei
Yablokov of the Center for Ecological Problems of Russia,
according to the Guardian report.
Preliminary investigations show that a short circuit in the
regional electricity system caused a sudden blackout in three
nuclear reactors in the Urals, including the top-secret Mayak
factory, the world's largest nuclear fuel reprocessing plant.
Reactors at Mayak were shut down last Saturday after a power grid
failure cut off the plant's outside electricity supply for 45
minutes.
Russia's Atomic Energy Ministry insisted that all back-up systems
worked seconds after the accident, but environmental activists
reported that the standby electricity generators of at least one
of the reactors had failed to start, according to the newspaper
report.
The head of the Mayak plant, Vitaliy Sadovnikov, told a local
newspaper this was the worst blackout the station had faced. He
credited his staff's "near-military discipline" for preventing a
serious accident. But Tobias Muenchmeyer, atomic energy expert
with Greenpeace, said the shutdown is an example of the ease with
which a disaster could be sparked.
"The fact that the grid was down for 45 minutes is extremely
alarming, because it means that control was temporarily lost in
these crucial nuclear installations."
Russian nuclear plants have lost power before, but this power cut
happened at a time when Russia's crumbling infrastructure is
under even greater scrutiny than usual amid the sinking of the
Kursk nuclear submarine.
(C) 2000 UPI. All Rights Reserved.
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