Krsko Coolant Concern

摘要

A coolant leak at Slovenia's Krsko nuclear plant sparked diplomatic concern after the European Commission initially told European Union (EU) member states about the incident, but added the message was just a drill. The European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange (ECURIE) nuclear alert system was informed the same day the accident happened. Unfortunately, when this EU body issued a general warning to all EU governments, some were told the message was a training exercise. Slovene environment minister Janez Podobnik later said: "It was genuine human error. The nuclear safety agency has already apologised it used the wrong form." But the environment minister of next-door Austria Josef Proelle was not happy. "It must be immediately clarified. Why were the directly affected neighbours confronted with a test announcement? This should not happen," he said.