SAYANO-SHUSHENSKAYA HPP, August 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu has again confirmed that a hydraulic impact caused the Monday morning accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant. “The main version of the emergency is a hydraulic impact, but it is necessary to find out what caused the hydraulic impact,” he said.
RF Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko agreed with him. “It is so far early to speak about the causes,” he said.
Shoigu also said that no emergency situations took place at the aluminium smelters in Khakassia, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the Kemerovo and Novosibirsk regions. “Owing to the modern equipment installed at them serious breakdowns were prevented,” Shoigu stated.
The RF emergencies minister heads efforts aimed at the elimination of the aftermath of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant’s accident. He personally controls the progress of all operations in site. A large group of the ministry’s specialists is also working at the emergency site together with experts from the Energy Ministry, RF Federal Service of Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) and other services.
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