A nuclear reactor on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia, which had an automatic shutdown earlier this week, is ready for reconnection, according to the press service of state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
(Bloomberg) — A nuclear reactor on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia, which had an automatic shutdown earlier this week, is ready for reconnection, according to the press service of state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
“Our engineers at the Kola nuclear power plant have replaced a faulty sensor of the capacity control system of turbo generator 6, which caused the emergency shutdown,” the service told Bloomberg. “The power unit is now fully prepared for reconnection to the grid, which will take place once we have received a clearance from the grid operator.”
The Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority earlier on Tuesday said the power plant’s Reactor 3 automatically shut down on Sunday. Units 1 and 2 of the facility remained in operation, while a fourth reactor was closed for planned maintenance, the Norwegian agency said, citing initial information from the Russian Atomic Energy Bureau.
The facility was disconnected from the network in a safe mode in accordance with the design algorithms, Rosatom said in an earlier statement. No additional radiation was detected in Russia’s Murmansk region bordering Norway and Finland, it said.
(Updates first paragraph with information from Rosatom.)
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