THE the only nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, which produces about a third of the country consumes electricity, today shut down one of its two 1,000-megawatt reactors after generator failure, without leakage of radioactivityannounced by the station.
Today at 06:05 (local time and time in Greece) Unit 5 of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant was shut down “Due to system malfunction” of the generator “and activation of electrical protection in the non-nuclear part” of the station.
The pemergency protection was activatedbut “there is no change in the state of radioactivity in the facility,” the station said in a statement.
Kozloduy’s second reactor, Unit 6 of the same capacity, is still in full operation, according to the station.
The date on which Unit 5 will be able to reconnect to the mains was not specified. It was turned off less than a month ago for maintenance and power supply.
Kozloduy, Bulgaria’s only nuclear power plant, produces about a third of the country’s electricity, according to the APE-BPE, thanks to two reactors that took over from four small reactors that closed in 2002 and 2006 to meet the requirements of the European Union.
Source: News Beast
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