NUCLEAR POWER PLANT THAT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION NEAR SAINT PETERSBURG TUMBLES DOWN (Alfa, 26 July 2011)
Created 2011-07-26
A large-scale accident took place in the Leningrad NPP-2 that is currently under construction – the mounted fixtures collapsed. Neither the Soviet Union, nor post-Soviet Russia has ever seen a failure of similar scale in the construction of nuclear power plants.
In Sosnovyj Bor near Saint Petersburg, the metal support structure of the first block of the Leningrad NPP-2 fell down. The Belarusian news agency notes that namely a reactor of such construction would be built in Astravets, close to the Lithuanian state border. “With such quality of construction and if such accident took place in an operating NPP, entire Belarus would be swept away from our planet’s surface,” the Belarusian source states. One could also add that Lithuania would also be swept away.According to preliminary data, the gigantic metal structure fell down, because technical requirements for construction were breached. Nothing catastrophic happened as this NPP is just under construction. However, the accident raises serious and very important questions about the safety of this type of NPP, bearing in mind that numerous accidents keep occurring already during the period of construction.
TRANSLATION FROM LITHUANIAN
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