Emergency protection worked at Rivne NPP of Ukraine
According to the information provided by the press service of the company, the protection system disconnected the power unit No.3 of the Rovno NPP (VVER-1000) from the grid.
A commission works at the site, in the adjacent territory a radiation, fire-fighting and environmental condition is within the normal range. At the moment, the third unit is off, the second and fourth units are operating at full load. The first unit is in scheduled maintenance.
Rovno NPP is the first nuclear power plant in Ukraine and the only one equipped with power units based on the first reactors of this series of VVER-440 (В-213). Overhaul was performed at the third power unit of the nuclear power plant in 2016. According to some Ukrainian media, the unit needed repairs after loading nuclear fuel to the American company Westinghouse.
The last message about emergency shutdowns at the Ukrainian NPPs was in October last year, when the reactor protection system at the Zaporozhye NPP was in emergency operation. According to a source in the Ukrainian company Energoatom, which is the operator of nuclear power plants located in the country, in the near future Ukraine will face a significant shortage of specialists in the maintenance of nuclear power plants.
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