Leningrad NPP

USSR. Leningrad Region. Sosnovy Bor. Director of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant Anatoly Pavlovich Eperin during a demonstration of an insignificant level of background radiation near the third power unit, where the automatic emergency protection was triggered. 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. Maxim Blokhin/TASS