Spiegel: PE at the Zaporizhzhya NPP showed how great fear of the atom
The fault at the Zaporizhzhya NPP caused a chain reaction in the German media, immediately erupted publications With panic headers, writes.
This episode once again showed how much the fear of nuclear energy in Germany. To allay any remaining concerns, the magazine has analyzed the situation in the nuclear power industry of Ukraine.
The degree of hazard at any nuclear facility on the Ines scale ranges from 0 ( " error " ) To 7 ( " catastrophe " ). What happened in Zaporozhye, valued at " 0 ". Release of radioactive materials has not happened - it was only the emergency disconnect power. Until now the highest level of risk only got the disaster at Chernobyl And Fukushima ".
Today in Ukraine there was not a single reactor of the Chernobyl type. All active reactors here Russian or Soviet production, which uses a different principle of obtaining energy.
In 1998, Ukraine was five incidents at nuclear power plants, highlights magazine, is also present in Zaporozhye, two With level 2 And two level " 1 ". After the 1990-ies, when in truth there were problems With the maintenance of the technical richness of Ukrainian nuclear power plants, they were All eliminated. According to the IAEA, it is hardly possible to distinguish Ukrainian NPP from German, French or American, the magazine writes.
With regard to the civil conflict in the country, 3 of the 4 Ukrainian NPP Rivne, Khmelnytsky, And on the South of Ukraine are far away from places where there are clashes. Closest Zaporizhzhya NPP - it is located approximately 200 km from Donetsk. And although there is no doubt That the Crisis of political power already plunged the country into a severe economic difficulties, but Until now there is no reason to assume That the safety of 4 nuclear power plants in Ukraine is under threat, says Der Spiegel.
State company " Ukrenergo " November 28 emergency shut off customers due to problems at the Zaporizhzhya NPP And shortage of coal at thermal power plants. Tuesday, December 2, disable repeated. According to the state-owned enterprises, United power system (UPS) of Ukraine continues to work in difficult conditions caused by the shortage of coal, destruction of electrical networks And transport infrastructure because of the conflict in the South-East of the country, a high accident rate units of power plants. While emergency repairs are 22 thermal unit (TPP) And atomic (nuclear) power plants (about 30% of the available equipment) With a total capacity of 5930 MW. When this energy consumption by regions greatly exceeds the page limitations of power consumption. Read more about Zaporizhzhya NPP
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