In Russia, the Leningrad nuclear power plant accident occurred

In the suburbs of St. Petersburg a panic because of yesterday's accident at the Leningrad nuclear power plant.

It is reported by Radio Liberty.

Pharmacies buy iodine, officials do not believe the situation is compared with Chernobyl.

Environmentalists from the organization "Green World" explains that the radiation background is normal, but warned that "the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland enters into a ten-year streak of increased risks of accidents at nuclear facilities" and that lies ahead "resonance" increase in the number of accidents at the Sosnovy Bor nuclear cluster. "

On Friday it was reported that the accident occurred at Leningrad NPP. Due to the rupture of the pipe with steam was stopped by unit number two. Administration of Sosnovy Bor says that the normal background radiation.

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Today, the accident occurred on the second power unit of Leningrad NPP. As the "Echo of Moscow", it was in 13-50. The turbine hall cracked pipe with steam. He filled the room, and went beyond the power plant. Eyewitnesses have posted Internet photos clouds over the pine forest. SELA employees go home. The second unit was stopped manually. According to specialists, the release was radioactive, because the so-called loop reactor coolant enters the exhaust steam. East wind carried a cloud in the direction of Estonia and Finland.

Now at the Leningrad nuclear power plant has three power units, writes media.

Director of Leningrad NPP Vladimir Periguda claims that the situation is calm in the station area.

In turn, the head of the administration of Sosnovy Bor Vladimir Sadovsky in a video message, called on the population not to panic.

Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant is located 80 kilometers from St. Petersburg, on the Gulf of Finland. It is considered one of the largest producers of electricity in the north-west Russia.

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