Krsko nuclear power plant
power plant(Slovenia)
The
European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange
(ECURIE), the European commission system of notification of the
radiological and nuclear emergencies, announced the end of the
emergency caused by the accident occured yesterday at the Slovenian
Krsko nuclear power plant. The plant has been powered down and
stabilized and the situation seems to be completely under control.
The environment seems to be safe and it wasn't necessary to adopt
any external emergency measurement. The accident consisted in a
reactor cooling water loss, that however remained inside the
containment building whereof the plant, built upon an american
project, is provided. The Italian territory is out of risk. APAT,
as national contact point of the ECURIE system, promptly received
the news and transmitted it to the Civil Defense. APAT will follow
the event, trying to find out the technical causes of the
accident.