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- From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
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- Subject: NEWS: Chernobyl's Number Three Reactor Restarts
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- Date: 20 Nov 1992 00:48:19 GMT
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- [Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]
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- CHERNOBYL'S NUMBER THREE REACTOR RESTARTS
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- LONDON October 16, 1992 (GP) Greenpeace has received information
- today that the third reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
- is starting up today.
-
- Chernobyl has two units intact despite the infamous accident in
- unit 4 in April 1986 which spread a radioactive cloud over the
- entire European continent. There was a further accident in
- Chernobyl's unit 2 in October 1991 which resulted in its
- permanent closure.
-
- Both units 1 and 3 were shut down early this year after defects
- were found in the fuel channel control valves.
-
- The Chernobyl power station is scheduled to be closed at the end of
- 1993, however, the Ukrainian authorities say they need the
- remaining units over the winter months.
-
- But in May this year, the Ukraine State Committee for Nuclear and
- Radiation Safety said it would not support the restart of the two
- operational units on safety grounds.
-
- "It is ironic that the day after an accident in another RBMK
- reactor, this time at Ignalina in Lithuania, the most infamous of
- nuclear power plants starts up again," said Antony Froggatt of
- Greenpeace International.
-
- Yesterday a leak in the second unit of the Ignalina power station
- forced its shutdown. This is the second time in a few months that
- this reactor has had to be shut down for safety reasons.
- Despite the well-known risks, nuclear reactors will be restarting
- throughout Eastern Europe, Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia, because
- the governments concerned and the G7 have failed to act
- responsibly.
-
- "Time and money have been wasted on trying to perform the
- impossible task of making these reactors safe," Froggatt said.
- "Instead there should have been an emergency program which
- enabled these reactors to be shut down permanently. We are all
- paying the price of this failure."
-