Krško nuclear power station shut down as a precaution after quake

Krško, 29 December - The Krško Nuclear Power Station (NEK) was shut down as a precaution on Tuesday after a powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit near the town of Petrinja, Croatia, shortly after midday. Such a shutdown is standard procedure in the event of a strong earthquake, NEK told the STA. NEK is located some 80 kilometres north-west of Petrinja.

Krško
The Krško Nuclear Power Plant.
Photo: Rasto Božič/STA

The rest of this news item is available to subscribers.
The news item consists of 1.837 characters (without spaces) or 352 words words.

Buy the news item. Price: 2 tokens; on account: 0 tokens.

eho/sm/ep/zm/mas/mas
© STA, 2020