Fvg region, Arpa activated, no anomaly Krsko power plant

(ANSA) - UDINE, 12 OTT - "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." (ANSA).