The blackout of May 25 left certain parts of Russia without electricity-but nuclear projects did not have whatever emergencies. All are going on with their usual routine, including the Physical Technical Institute, federal government research center based in Obninsk near Moscow.
The blackout did not make a sizeable impact on technological processes in companies under Rosatom, or on their physical protective facilities.
There was no environment pollution, either, says the statement.
Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Emergency and Calamity Relief, also denies nuclear leakages in the Obninsk nuclear plant.
Obninsk is in the Kaluga Region, to Moscow's southwest, and neighboring on the Moscow Region. The blackout struck the Kaluga Region, too, so the plant is under close monitoring. The latest gages of all parameters at the plant and round it did not offer any alarming results. Background radiation was absolutely normal, within the annual average for many preceding years, the minister said in a Rossia television company live cast.
Victor Vdovenkov, chief of the Kaluga gubernatorial press service, also denied nuclear leakages in Obninsk with the blackout. He reminded, in a Novosti interview, that Obninsk possessed not only a nuclear power plant but also two research institutes, which used radioactive materials. There were no emergencies in either institute, he emphatically said.
