Atomic accident in the largest nuclear reactor of Ukraine

Incident in Ukrainian nuclear power plant: No increased radioactivity measured

03/12/2014

In Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye, 570 kilometers southeast of the capital Kiev, according to Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, an incident has apparently occurred. "I know there was an accident in the power plant in." According to Energy Minister Volodimir Demtschischin, there is no danger. It is a question „manageable phenomenon“, not in the „nuclear area“ took place.

Radioactivity was therefore not leaked. Specifically, it would be a problem with a reactor, which is why this currently can not produce electricity. This in turn intensifies the current energy crisis in Ukraine. The management of the nuclear power plant had reported on 28/11/2014 of the shutdown of the reactor. Since no increased radiation was measured, they wanted to let the reactor go back to the grid in two days.

Zaporozhye is the most powerful nuclear power plant in Europe. The plant was put into operation in 1984. Ukraine has already had painful experiences with radioactivity. In 1986, it came in the nuclear power plant Chernobyl to a super-GAU, which claims victims to this day. The leaked radioactivity then contaminated large parts of Europe and made the immediate vicinity of the power plant uninhabitable to this day. The inhabitants of the area as well as the crisis intervention forces were partially heavily irradiated.

Those affected fell ill with radiation sickness, which is characterized by fever, nausea and hair loss and in many cases led to the death of the patients. But even decades after the catastrophe, radiation in the form of an increased leukemia rate affects the inhabitants of heavily contaminated areas. In addition, it came as a result of radioactive contamination to serious damage to the human genome, which leads to today a large number of birth defects. In addition, the development of cancer is greatly favored, which is also confirmed in the statistics. (Jp)

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