The figure represents the highest number of aberrant incidents all year. The average figure reported by the agency is usually between three and five per month.

Incidents occurred at six out of Russia’s 10 nuclear power plants, including the Novovoronezh, Kursk, Kalinin, Leniningrad, Kola and Balakova nuclear power plants.

The oversight agency, however, was quick to point out in a statement that “radiation conditions in the regions of the nuclear power stations remains normal.”