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SEOUL - A NUCLEAR reactor in south-eastern South Korea shut down automatically on Thursday after a water supply problem but there was no danger of atomic leaks, a spokesman said.
Reactor No 1 at the power plant in Uljin, 230 kilometres south-east of Seoul, closed down after its steam generator ran short of water for unknown reasons.
'There is no risk of any radioactive material leaking in this kind of accident,' Korea Hydro Nuclear Power Corp spokesman Choi Young Jin told AFP.
'We are now investigating to determine why water supply to the steam generator stopped,' he said.
Mr Choi said automatic shutdowns happen on average 0.5 to 0.9 times a year at each of the country's 20 nuclear reactors.
Reactor No 1 was completed about 20 years ago and is about halfway through its life cycle, he added. -- AFP
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