



Nuclear Event – Europe Event summary EDIS Number NC-20100928-27988-RUS Event type Nuclear Event Date / time [UTC] 28/09/2010 – 16:08:32 Country Russia [Europe] Area Kola Nuclear Power Plant (Energoatom) County / State Murmansk Oblast City - Cause of event Unknown Log date [UTC] 28/09/2010 – 16:08:32

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MURMANSK – The No. 3 reactor block of the embattled Kola Nuclear Power Plant was shut down today by its automatic switch off in what is a seeming series of more and more incidents at the Kola, and well as other Russian NPPs . Anna Kireeva, Charles Digges, 28/09-2010 – Translated by Charles Digges

In a release on Kola NPP’s website, operators said that, “at 1:38 am on September 28, the automatic protection switch of the No. 3 reactor block shut the unit down as a result of a malfunction in one of the elements in the system responsible for pressure control in the first compartment. The reason for the malfunction is being ascertained.”

Ironically, the malfunction falls on the Russian national holiday celebrating workers of the nuclear industry, September 28. Kola NPP is located 200 kilometres south of the Kola Peninsula’s regional centre of Murmansk in Russia’s Far Northwest.

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