Chernobyl plant shut down again

Kiev - Ukraine energy officials said yesterday they had shut down the only operating reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant…

Kiev - Ukraine energy officials said yesterday they had shut down the only operating reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for the second time within days.

The reactor at Chernobyl, site of the world's worst civil nuclear disaster in 1986, had been restarted on Monday after a minor malfunction caused a shutdown last week.

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