Steam pipe break at Leningrad NPP

The finnish authorities STUK reports following (translated with the help of translate.google.com )
After the steam leak, STUK had contact with the Russian safety authority and power plant. The steam leakage was caused by a broken steam pipe in the turbine hall and the reactor was shut down as a normal protective measure. The steam leakage could be stopped on Friday evening.

http://www.stuk.fi/web/sv/-/anglackan-i-sosnovyj-bor-18-12-ingen-avvikande-radioaktivitet-upptacktes-vid-stuk-s-kontrollmatningar-i-finland
Dated 21.12.2015 kl 16:32

/Carl

mass panic, traffic jams, ki tablets... happy to see the Russian's healthy lack of trust in the official line - "no immediate danger, its all under control, blar blar blardy blar."

Juzzie wrote:

mass panic, traffic jams, ki tablets... happy to see the Russian's healthy lack of trust in the official line - "no immediate danger, its all under control, blar blar blardy blar."

Yes, this would likely happen in every country and that is why I have my own detektor....

Well, at least the St. Petersburg Radioactiveathome station shows normal levels over the past 2 weeks, and there are no high readings nearby right now on the Eurdep site: http://eurdepweb.jrc.ec.europa.eu/EurdepMap/Default.aspx .
There is some dispute whether the steam was radioactive, but the culture at that plant seems to be to hide the truth. The past incidents there are truly scary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Nuclear_Power_Plant . The hope is that this reactor's 2 separate cooling water/steam circuits allowed one circuit to continue to work to effect the shutdown, and also that there were no compromised fuel rods in that reactor core. The steam released would have been from water in direct contact with,half the fuel rods. If any of the rods were leaking, that material is now in the environment. It could be that the cooling water becomes radioactive even without a rod leak (I'm not sure on that).