For over 40 years, the single-unit Krško nuclear power station has served as a model of cross-border cooperation between Slovenia and Croatia – countries where a looming gap in energy supply can only realistically be filled by a clean and firm source such as nuclear, the chair of the European Nuclear Young Generation Forum (ENYGF) told NucNet.
Commissioned in 1983 and jointly owned by Slovenia’s GEN Energija and Croatia’s Hrvatska elektroprivreda, the pressurised water reactor plant has supplied around 20% of Slovenia’s and 16% of Croatia’s electricity needs.