A major failure and large-scale power outages occurred in the south of Russia after an emergency shutdown of a power unit at the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant from the grid — the protection was triggered, Rosenergoatom reported. The radiation background is normal, there are no violations of the safety of the plant’s operation. But due to increased loads on the power system, specialists from the Ministry of Energy introduced temporary schedules for limiting electricity consumption by 1.5 gigawatts, the department’s Telegram channel said .The restrictions affected several large cities in the south: Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Krasnodar, Elista, Anapa, Armavir, Gellendzhik, Novorossiysk, Stavropol. Here, the streets were without electricity, traffic lights did not work, public transport was limited in some places, traffic jams increased in the cities, there were problems with mobile communications. But bloggers say on social networks that an accident and radiation release occurred at the Rostov nuclear power plant.”The emergency discharge of radioactive water at the Rostov NPP has not yet been localized, in addition, there is a constant radiation leak. The radioactive background in Rostov, according to Rosatom, is normal, in fact, it has already exceeded the norm by 75 times,” writes blogger Serg Volin. Some telegram channels says an accident at the Rostov NPP resulted in a release of radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere with radioactivity of up to one and a half million curies. The radioactive cloud is moving inland, towards Saratov. Krymenergo also reported rolling blackouts . But here they explained them by abnormal heat and also introduced temporary power supply schedules; in Sevastopol, trolleybuses “stopped”.http://youtube.com/kanal13az/join – click here and support Kanal13 monthly for distributing more videos and independent journalism