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Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) disconnected its first reactor from the country's power grids at 0008 Kyiv time on July 7, 2012, for scheduled medium-term repairs, NJSC Energoatom's press service reported on Saturday.

The repairs will continue until September 17, 2012 and will include
routine repairs to the reactor with a reloading of the core and sending
of 48 spent fuel rods for storage at the dry spent nuclear fuel storage
facility.

Thus, as of noon of Saturday, 11 out of 15 reactors were in operation at Ukraine’s four existing nuclear power plants.

The sixth reactor of Zaporizhia NPP is at its 44th day of scheduled
medium maintenance, the third reactor of Yuzhnoukrainsk NPP is at its
109th day of scheduled medium maintenance, and the second reactor of
Yuzhnoukrainsk NPP is at its 20th day of scheduled medium maintenance.

Radiation levels and the fire and environmental situations at all Ukrainian NPPs are normal, the press service said.

Energoatom is the operator of all four operating nuclear power plants
in Ukraine. It operates Zaporizhia, Yuzhnoukrainsk, Rivne and
Khmelnitsky plants with 15 VVER reactors whose total installed
electrical capacity is 13.835 GW.