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Blast near nuclear reactors in northwest Russia
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-12-17 11:49
One person was killed in an explosion near the Leningrad nuclear power plant
in northwest Russia, but the blast posed no danger to the reactors.
A nuclear power plant in the northern
Leningrad region. One person was killed in an explosion near the Leningrad
nuclear power plant in northwest Russia, but the blast posed no danger to
the reactors. [AFP] | "An explosion occurred on
Friday at a company located far from the reactors and did not affect the power
station's operation. No increase in radioactivity was noted," Russian Atomic
Energy Agency spokesman Nikolai Shingarev told AFP on Friday.
Vladimir Vorobiyev, the regional representative of Russia's emergency
situations ministry, said the blast went off in a nearby metal smelting
facility, but not actually within the limits of the power station, which is
located in the town of Sosnovyi Bor near Saint Petersburg.
Vorobiyev said three workers were burned, one of them later dying in
hospital.
The Leningrad power station dates from 1973 and is equipped with the same
type of Soviet-built reactor as that at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in
Ukraine which suffered a meltdown in 1986 in history's worst civilian nuclear
disaster.
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