3rd reactor

The preparations for start of the 3rd reactor on the Chernobyl NPS on Friday, December 3, 1999. On the extraordinary repair completion on Sunday, December 5, 1999, at 11:07 a.m. the output of electric power on the 3rd reactor of the Chernobyl NPS was renewed. On November 27 the power-unit renewed its work after the 5-month repair. The unit was stopped in the course of the water leak (the defect of one of the pipes in the rector department. Photo by UNIAN