Reactor at Russian nuclear plant stopped - reports

MOSCOW, Jan 30 (Reuters) A reactor at Russia's Balakovskaya atomic power plant was automatically stopped because of a technical problem, media reported today.

Interfax news agency quoted emergency officials as saying that radiation levels at the plant were normal and that officials were investigating the matter.

The plant is in the Saratov region on the Volga river.

Russia has 10 nuclear power plants and up to 30 reactors built during Soviet days. It also has the world's second biggest nuclear arsenal.

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