22-06-2012, 02:29 PM
STOCKHOLMSweden's three nuclear-power plants raised their security-alert level Thursday, a day after explosives were found on a forklift truck at the Ringhals nuclear-power plant.Suspicious material about the size of a fist was found by personnel carrying out normal security checks with a sniffer dog, and police sent a sample of the material by helicopter to a crime laboratory, which confirmed that it was explosive. However, the material had no ignition device.Enlarge Image
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ReutersThe Ringhals nuclear power station is on the southwest coast of Sweden.
Police are investigating the case as suspected sabotage, said Ingmar Nilja, a spokesman for the police in the district of Halland, adding that he has no information as to whether the plant's nuclear reactors were targeted."We don't know what the idea behind this was, what was the plan? These are some of the questions we will try to answer with our investigation," he said.Ringhals, located in southwest Sweden, is the country's largest nuclear-power plant, and its four reactors produce about 20% of all electricity in the country.In Sweden, Ringhals has been at the center of the public debate on nuclear safety, after a vacuum cleaner left in a reactor hall last year caused a fire that brought the reactor to a standstill for eight months.The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority has had the plant under special surveillance since June 2009, and late last month said that while improvements have been made, there are still deficiencies in the safety routines at Ringhals.The incident came after an oil leak at the plant led to a stoppage at one of the four reactors on Monday. The leak was unrelated to Wednesday's incident, said Gosta Larsen, spokesperson at the plant, which is owned by Vattenfall AB and the Swedish arm of Germany's E.ON EOAN.XE +1.78% AG.He added that Wednesday's incident had no effect on the plant's production.With regard to the most recent incident, a number of people have been questioned, including the driver of the truck, who isn't suspected of any involvement in placing the material on the truck. Police are trying to trace the vehicle's movements before the explosives were found.The Radiation Safety Authority said the country's three nuclear-power plants had raised their security levels by one notch, to the second level of four, as a precaution after the incident at Ringhals.Several countries have been rethinking their nuclear strategies since an earthquake and tsunami last year caused a serious accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japanincluding Germany, which announced a shutdown of all its nuclear power plants by 2022.
Dominic Chopping contributed to this article.ReutersThe Ringhals nuclear power station is on the southwest coast of Sweden.
Police are investigating the case as suspected sabotage, said Ingmar Nilja, a spokesman for the police in the district of Halland, adding that he has no information as to whether the plant's nuclear reactors were targeted."We don't know what the idea behind this was, what was the plan? These are some of the questions we will try to answer with our investigation," he said.Ringhals, located in southwest Sweden, is the country's largest nuclear-power plant, and its four reactors produce about 20% of all electricity in the country.In Sweden, Ringhals has been at the center of the public debate on nuclear safety, after a vacuum cleaner left in a reactor hall last year caused a fire that brought the reactor to a standstill for eight months.The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority has had the plant under special surveillance since June 2009, and late last month said that while improvements have been made, there are still deficiencies in the safety routines at Ringhals.The incident came after an oil leak at the plant led to a stoppage at one of the four reactors on Monday. The leak was unrelated to Wednesday's incident, said Gosta Larsen, spokesperson at the plant, which is owned by Vattenfall AB and the Swedish arm of Germany's E.ON EOAN.XE +1.78% AG.He added that Wednesday's incident had no effect on the plant's production.With regard to the most recent incident, a number of people have been questioned, including the driver of the truck, who isn't suspected of any involvement in placing the material on the truck. Police are trying to trace the vehicle's movements before the explosives were found.The Radiation Safety Authority said the country's three nuclear-power plants had raised their security levels by one notch, to the second level of four, as a precaution after the incident at Ringhals.Several countries have been rethinking their nuclear strategies since an earthquake and tsunami last year caused a serious accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japanincluding Germany, which announced a shutdown of all its nuclear power plants by 2022.
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