European Commission triggered the alert after a radioactive nuclear incident. The incident occurred at nuclear power in Krsko, Slovenia. The missing radiation was detected in a circuit of central cooling. The central was stopped for several hours, until will be determined by the causes. The power plant is a Westinghouse (USA), pressure vessel, cooled and moderated with H2O and electric power at the terminal 632 MWe. Reactor operates with slightly enriched uranium U 235. It was put into operation in 1983 and is used jointly by Slovenia and Croatia.
Do you know more details about this incident? :banghead
this is what I found: The head of the agency, Dr. Andrej Stritar, said in the statement that "there has been no impact on the environment and none is expected." He added that workers at the plant and other people in the area had not been affected.
No victims, that is important!
people didn't die instantly, but they may die with time. What are the news now? Is the environment safe in that area?
A radioactive water leak caused the stopping of a reactor at the Rivne nuclear power, western Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities announced today :ange
this must worsen the relations between Slovenia and Ukraine, unless Slovenia pays a certain amount for the environemnt damage
today a chemical plant in China exploded. See details here
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it is strange that we are able to see a video footage of the event in such a short time. A long time, due to the communist regime in the country, the world wasn't able to know what happens there, especially when it came to disasters like this one.
Maybe that is because China promised to raise the level and standard of how human rights are respected there, in exchange for the global community to accept to run the Olympics in China.
this incident in China is a really serious one - an entire river was affected, 11,500 people were obliged to leave their homes.
A radioactive leak from a nuclear plant is serious. But when you combine it with a river it is disastrous. Because of such a bad combination, the river could spread the radiation on a vaster territory then anyone would be expecting.
you are right Hakan, it may even affect the neighbour countries. River flow is fast.
Why don’t they build these nuclear plants underground?
Nicholas Wrote:Why don’t they build these nuclear plants underground?
An underground nuclear plant? Good idea. However too much expensive to be realized, at least for China. Can you imagine the area a nuclear plant requires? It will cost 10 times more to build it underground.
An Underground nuclear plant is a good idea, and China has both resources: a lot of free land to deploy such a project, and money too, it is the world's fastest growing economic potential.
Nicholas Wrote:Why don’t they build these nuclear plants underground?
because this is SF
generally nuclear plants are build far away from settlements in order to avoid victims in case of catastrophes. China has a lot of unpopulated land, it remains to be explored.