L to the EU Commission has issued a warning about the risk of radioactivity resulting from an incident in the Krsko nuclear power plant in Slovenia, only 130 km As the crow flies from Trieste.
Brussels has announced it has received, through the Ecurie early warning system, reporting a loss of fluid from the cooling system main Slovenian, adding that the procedure has already been turned off for safety . At present, however, was not detected no radiation leak.
The EU itself has also reported that the Slovenian authorities have indicated that the shutdown of the reactor were completed and the situation is under control. The incident occurred at 17.38 Italian. The Slovenian Nuclear Safety Agency, for its part, said that there are risks. Previously, the Nek, the company that the central gesticse, had argued that the loss occurred within the structure of reactor. As to the cause of the accident, we will begin only after switching off the necessary controls. Finally, the Slovenian authorities (which now have inter alia the rotating presidency of the EU and on the eve the Energy Council next Friday in Luxembourg) were lavish in assurances, noting that the incident has had an impact "local".
However, now seems inevitable resumption of the controversy over the safety of this source and at the very moment when the Italian government has undertaken initiatives to resume the practice in carrying out a number of third-generation nuclear plants. The signs already this evening in a series of position statements strongly critical, not only on the environmental front. Of note, however, that the Lombardy Region and Harp have now activated with the special audits of environmental radioactivity detection system.
Those facilities opened in 1983, has a capacity of 730 MW, with only one reactor of PWR type, second-generation Russian-made. His final shutdown is scheduled for 2023.
The Krsko plant, however, had already been at the center of controversy between Italy and Slovenia for the project to build a new reactor by 2017.
Last Updated (Wednesday, June 4, 2008)(Source: ScanziamoLeScorie.org)
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