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Russian nuclear power plant switches off units after short-circuit

Thu, 18th Jul 2019 07:46

MOSCOW, July 18 (Reuters) - A Russian nuclear power plantnorthwest of Moscow turned off three of its four generatingunits on Thursday after a transformer short circuited butradiation levels remained normal, a subsidiary of state nuclearcorporation Rosatom said.

The incident occurred at the Kalinin nuclear power plant inRussia's Tver region about 350 kilometres (217 miles) northwestof Moscow, it said.

"The radiation level at the station and surroundingterritory remains without change and is in line with normalbackground levels," Rosenergoatom said in a statement.(Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy, Maria Kiselyova, AnastasiaLyrchikova;Writing by Tom Balmforth;Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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