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Rescuers take fuel from leaked to safe cisterns in Yakutia

MOSCOW, Jun 23 (PRIME) -- Rescuers have pumped the remaining 113 cubic meters of diesel fuel from a leaked fuel tank at a diesel power plant in Russia’s republic of Yakutia to reserves, a representative told PRIME on Tuesday.

"The transfer of (113 cubic meters) of diesel fuel from the damaged reservoir to other capacities on the territory of the plant has been finished," the official said.

Around 3.5 cubic meters of diesel fuel leaked from a fuel tank in the settlement of Argakhtakh on June 21. Yakutia’s environmental protection prosecutor started investigation of the emergency, the regional Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

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23.06.2020 12:23