UKRAINE: ENGINEERS REPAIRING UKRAINE'S CHERNOBYL POWER PLANT ARE ABOUT TO CONCLUDE THEIR WORK BEFORE ITS LAST WORKING REACTOR IS RESTARTED

Record ID: 473057

  • Title: UKRAINE: ENGINEERS REPAIRING UKRAINE'S CHERNOBYL POWER PLANT ARE ABOUT TO CONCLUDE THEIR WORK BEFORE ITS LAST WORKING REACTOR IS RESTARTED
  • Date: 5th March 1999
  • Summary: CHERNOBYL, UKRAINE (MARCH 4, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. LV/SV EXTERIOR VIEW OF NUCLEAR POWER STATION (3 SHOTS) 0.13 2. LV/SV WORKERS WALKING TO REACTOR (2 SHOTS) 0.27 3. LV/SV INTERIORS OF STATION (2 SHOTS) 0.36 4. SLV/SV/CU ENGINEERS WORKING ON REPAIRS (6 SHOTS) 0.59 5. SV/MCU CHERNOBYL GENERAL DIRECTOR VITALY TOVSTONOGOV SEATED AT DESK/SAYING: "At the present time the work is on schedule. The reactor will be safer and more secure after the repairs. It will be restarted as planned on March 6." (3 SHOTS) 1.23 6. CU TELEPHONES ON DESK (2 SHOTS) 1.26 7. MCU (Russian) TOVSTONOGOV "We will maintain the reactor in a safe condition, ready to produce." 1.33 8. SLV/SV OF ENGINEERS AT WORK (7 SHOTS) 2.01 9. LV/SLV WORKERS EALKING OUTSIDE POWER STATION/PYLONS (2 SHOTS) 2.12 CHERNOBYL, UKRAINE (FILE - APRIL 1986) (REUTERS) 10. AERIAL VIEW OF PLANT AFTER EXPLOSION 2.16 11. SLV/CU OF REACTOR FOUR AFTER EXPLOSION (2 SHOTS) 2.26 12. LV/SV ESCUE WORKERS (3 SHOTS) 2.39 SLAVUTICH, UKRAINE ( RECENT - FEBRUARY 25, 1999) (REUTERS) 13. SV/MCU/SLV OF CHERNOBYL WORKERS' PROTEST (5 SHOTS) 3.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th March 1999 12:00
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  • Location: CHERNOBYL AND SLAVUTICH, UKRAINE
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  • Country: Ukraine
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  • Story Text: Engineers repairing Ukraine's troubled Chernobyl
    nuclear power plant are about to conclude their work before
    its last working reactor is restarted this weekend.

    Chernobyl's reactor number 3, closed for repairs last
    year, is scheduled to be restarted on Saturday (March 6).The
    repairs were originally expected to end by February 15 but
    continued after workers found additional defects in pipelines.

    The Chernobyl plant originally had four reactors.One
    exploded, in April 1986, spewing a cloud of poisonous
    radioactive dust over Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and parts of
    Western Europe in the world's worst civil nuclear disaster.

    The memory of that catastrophe has bred concerns about the
    safety of the other three Chernobyl reactors which, over the
    past several years, have been reported to malfunction and have
    undergone numerous repairs.

    The Group of Seven leading industrial nations have put
    pressure on Ukraine to shut down Chernobyl by 2000 in exchange
    for aid to replace the closed reactors with two new more
    modern types.

    But Kiev has long maintained it needs the existing
    reactors to help fulfill the country's electricity
    requirements.

    Ukraine operates five nuclear power plants with 14
    Soviet-designed nuclear reactors that generate almost half the
    electricity produced by the country of 50 million people.

    Recently, Ukrainian officials have increased security at
    the country's nuclear power stations due to protests by
    nuclear workers near the plants.

    Hundreds of workers, protesting against unpaid salaries,
    have camped outside their stations since February 24.

    The protesters demand the government pays off by March 6
    debts on their salaries that near $15 million to date.

    Earlier this week the government promised to cover debts
    to protesters with a 260 million hryvnia ($71 million) credit
    to the ailing energy sector.


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