Weather Disables Nuclear Reactors

Power lines downed by bad weather forced two more Ukrainian nuclear reactors to shut down, leaving millions of people without electricity and experts warning of worse to come. Nuclear plants provide about half of Ukraine’s electricity. Half of its 14 nuclear reactors were down late Tuesday, a day after a line failure stopped the last reactor at Chernobyl, site of the worst civil atomic disaster, possibly forever. “All shutdowns were linked to weather conditions,” an atomic energy agency spokesman said. He said there was no increase in radiation levels at any affected station.