Chernobyl electricity missed
NZPA-AFP Moscow The Soviet Union is facing a six million kilowatt shortage in electricity production because of April’s Chernobyl disaster, and will introduce staggered factory hours and other measures to cope with it.
The Soviet authorities, bracing themselves for the winter, have ordered that factories alter their hours to ease the load on the electricity grid. Some enterprises will open during the week-end, and close for two days midweek. A member of the Electric Energy Committee, Dmitri Protsenko, told the weekly “Nedelia” magazine, that electric signs in towns would be switched off.
“The Soviet Union is going to feel the effects of a six million kilowatt deficit,” he said. Three new nuclear power stations due to open at the beginning of this year, are now unlikely to be finished before 1987.
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Press, 20 October 1986, Page 8
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