Slovenia has reassured the European Union that Wednesday's cooling system leak in its only nuclear power plant at Krsko posed no threat.
Visiting Luxembourg, Slovenia's Foreign Minister Dragutin Mate has told EU interior ministers no environmental pollution had resulted. The United Nation's nuclear agency the IAEA says it's monitoring Krsko. On Wednesday the EU used its alert system ECURIE for the first time to notify all 27 EU member states. An all-clear stated by DW boss voices concern about press freedoms ...
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Magical minaret ... Germany's environment minister Sigmar Gabriel has been criticised by Greenpeace. Its spokesman Thomas Breuer told Deutsche Welle that the loss of reactor coolant was among one of the worst scenarios. Slovenia says it safely shut down the reactor manually. Krsko, co-owned by Slovenia and Croatia, is the only commercial reactor in former Yugoslavia.
(Deutsche Welle)
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