Thursday August 6 1998 11:55 AM EDT 

Chernobyl Reactor Restarted

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - The only working reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear
power plant has been restarted after four days of repairs, officials
said Thursday.

Reactor No. 3 shut down automatically Sunday because of an electric
transformer malfunction and was restarted Wednesday afternoon, the
state nuclear energy company Energoatom said.

The Chernobyl plant originally had four working nuclear
reactors. Reactor No. 4 was destroyed in a 1986 explosion, the world's
worst nuclear accident. Another reactor was shut down after being
badly damaged by a 1991 fire, and a third is not operational.

Ukraine relies on nuclear plants to produce about a half of its
electricity and says it does not have enough money to convert to other
forms of energy.

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