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The Greifswald nuclear power plant, also known as the Lubmin nuclear power plant, was located in former East Germany. On December 7, 1975, a short circuit on the transformer of reactor no. 1 caused a small fire that destroyed the supply of five main cooling pumps out of a total of six. If the last pump had not cooled the reactor, core meltdown would have occurred. The rapid intervention of the fire brigade allowed the fire to be extinguished and the power supply to all the pumps to be temporarily restored. The incident was only revealed to the public in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The IAEA has classified the accident as a level 4 accident on the INES.