A 950 MW nuclear reactor remained turned off Tuesday after a fire burned out an electrical transformer at the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant Monday night

A 950 MW nuclear reactor remained turned off Tuesday after a fire burned out an electrical transformer at the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant Monday night. “Radiation levels have not risen,” Ilona Zayets, spokeswoman for Energoatom, the state nuclear agency, tells AFP. Ukraine’s 15 nuclear reactors supply about the half of the nation’s electricity.  Commissioned in Nov. 1986, six months after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the Rivne reactor is of the VVER design, considered safer than Chornobyl’s RBMK reactors. The Rivne Plant has four reactors and is located in Varash, about 40 km south of Belarus and 180 km east of Poland.