"Regarding the findings of safety
systems at the Krsko nuclear power plant that led to the
shutdown of the Slovenian plant, the region and the Regional
Environmental Protection Agency (Arpa Fvg) were immediately
informed according to safety protocols. On October 5, safety
systems at the Krsko plant reported a small coolant leak in the
internal circuit. As a result, power plant technicians initiated
precautionary shutdown procedures. Arpa Fvg was contacted by the
National Nuclear Safety Inspectorate, which had been informed by
Slovenian authorities. From Oct. 6 to Oct. 9, Arpa Fvg's
Regional Radiation Protection Center intensified checks on
radioactivity in the air, detecting no anomalies." This was
reported by the regional councillor for Environmental Defense,
Fabio Scoccimarro. Scoccimarro also reported that Arpa also
monitored "atmospheric particulate matter and began to evaluate
the trajectories of air masses from the plant site with
numerical modeling to interpret the results. This intensive
monitoring ended on Oct. 9 after the completion of safety
operations inside the power plant."
Power plant technicians reported that the spilled water,
however, has always remained inside the power plant building and
has never been exposed to the outside environment. Thus,
"nothing abnormal from both continuous instrumentation and the
most sensitive gamma spectrometry measurements," Scoccimarro
pointed out, expressing "perplexity, not to say opposition, to
the hypothesis of doubling the Krsko2 power plant." Aiming at
"nuclear fission power, in Krsko, in an area of medium to high
seismic risk, I think it is no longer conceivable in the third
millennium."
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