Leningrad NPP

USSR. Leningrad Region. Sosnovy Bor. Machine room of the third power unit of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, where the automatic emergency protection system was activated. On March 24, 1992, at 2:37 a.m., an accident occurred at the third unit of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, associated with an automatic emergency shutdown of the reactor as a result of damage to one fuel channel (a moderate-severity incident of level "2" on the international seven-point event scale). Maxim Blokhin/TASS