Index – Economy – The expert pours clean water into the cup. This is what you can know about the closure of the nuclear power plant in Slovenia

On Thursday, a nuclear power plant in Krsko, Slovenia, was shut down due to a leak after a leak was discovered. After closing the reactor, specialists began identifying the source of the leak and repairing it.

The nuclear power plant operator confirmed that the radiation level is within safe limits at the facility located about 15 kilometers from the Slovenian-Croatian border, so it does not expose workers or the plant environment to danger.

He recently published a longer article due to the events surrounding the power plant On his own blog Attila Aszodi is an atomic energy engineer and director of the Institute of Nuclear Technology at the Budapest University of Technology. The former Secretary of State, also known as an expert on nuclear affairs, wrote about the Cresco nuclear power plant: The facility has been in operation since 1983 and is a pressurized water nuclear power plant of the type.

The so-called containment building consists of a cylindrical structure of reinforced concrete, which includes the primary cooling circuit containing radioactive materials.

As he writes, a containment leak means there is some sort of fault in the high-pressure primary cooling circuit, so coolant leaks into the airtight protective building.

The fact that the block was emptied and not immediately closed means that the leak is not major, and it is not an emergency closure either, so the operator acted as a precaution, Attila Asoudi noted.

At the end of his blog post, the nuclear expert wrote: It is possible that a smaller diameter measuring tube (for example, a pulse tube), a valve or a plug has failed, and experts will only be able to pinpoint it exactly when they do. I entered the room containing the defective component.

Most importantly, according to the operator’s report, no environmental release occurred, and the leak is contained within the sealed building, which is designed to handle such events. It is also important and correct that the reactor be shut down and cooled, so that the cause of the malfunction can be investigated

Attila Asodi commented.