THERE was panic last night after a blaze tore through a Ukrainian nuclear power plant reactor built in the same year as the Chernobyl nuke disaster.
Videos show the alarming inferno at Rivne power plant in the ex-Soviet republic as emergency teams battled to bring high flames and toxic black smoke under control.Footage showed smoke billowing into the sky above Rivne power plant in the ex-Soviet republicAs a result, the nuclear power plant had to be be shut down after it was engulfed in flames.The overnight blaze broke out in the transformer of the third reactor unit at Rivne.nuclear station exploded in Soviet Ukraine, say reports.
Three dozen firefighters and ten fire trucks rushed to the blaze to extinguish it after emergency procedures were set in place.Ukraine’s State Emergency Situations Service of Rivne region reported the level of radiation remained normal in the area.Petro Kratik, head of information at Rivne nuclear station, confirmed there had been a fire and said that reactor number three was shut down as a precaution.
He added: “According to the international scale of emergencies at nuclear stations this event level is zero.Monday's fire started at 9.07pm local time and it took about an hour to fully extinguish it, by 10.05pm , he said. The plant was reconnected to the Ukrainian grid several minutes before midnight after the blaze was killed, say reports.
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