Repair of Slovenian nuclear power plant according to law: plant official

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

LJUBLJANA (AFP) — No worker at Slovenia's nuclear power plant Krsko was exposed to excessive levels of radiation during a recent leak in the cooling system, a spokeswoman for the plant said on Monday.

"I can assure you that none of the workers that intervened in the repair of the valve in the cooling system was exposed to a level of radiation higher than those allowed by the law," the Krsko plant's spokeswoman Ida Novak told AFP.

Slovenia's sole nuclear power plant had to be shut down earlier this month after a leak in the cooling system that set off a Europe-wide alert.

The plant went back on line on June 9 after a successful replacement of the valve that produced the leak.

Novak denied reports by Slovenian weekly Zurnal 24 that six workers who took...