OREANDA-NEWS. April 18, 2011. Ukrainian nuclear power plants equipped with additional water tanks for heat removal and generators, which support the life support power plant.

Director of management of rescue forces Department of the Ministry of Emergencies Hryhoriy Marchenko said, answering journalists' questions - will the Ukrainian nuclear power plants to withstand earthquakes like Japanese in Fukushima.

According to Hryhoriy Marchenko, additional security measures at nuclear power plants were established on the recommendations of the IAEA after the Chernobyl accident. Similar systems at nuclear power plants there, not only in Japan but also in many European countries.

"There is one more additional security measure - in Ukraine is an independent inspectorate, which checks nuclear power plants. Inspectors which supervise the NPP do not subordinated to administrations of plants. So there is every reason to say, that in our nuclear power plants are the largest package of measures to prevent emergencies".

As added Basil Kvashuk - Director of Civil Defense Department of the Ministry of Emergencies, Ukraine is a seismically safe territory, and there can not be such powerful earthquakes as in Japan.

"The most dangerous are areas where are the Carpathian and Crimean mountains. These are young mountains and the maximum possible earthquake here in 8 points. At the Kyiv most fluctuations crust that can happen - it is 6 points. Accordingly, all buildings built with this option. 6 points - a calculation of capacity of earthquake that might happen once in a thousand years "- Vasily Kvashuk said.