A malfunction that occurred as a result of the extreme weather conditions in Romania, at the automatic gamma-background radiation monitoring station in the area of Gighera, Dolj, Romania, led to an alarm signal in the environmental radioactivity monitoring system, the Romanian National Environment Protection Agency told BTA.
In line with procedures, the data provided by the Gighera station was immediately checked against the values recorded by the other 11 radioactivity monitoring stations operating in the area around the Kozloduy NPP. The data show that there is no excess of normal values, but a malfunction in one of the station's sensors.
Corina Lupu, head of the Information System at the Romanian National Environmental Protection Agency confirmed that on the evening of November 25, around 10 pm Romanian time, the automatic gamma-background radiation monitoring station located in Gighera reported high values. In order to confirm or reject them, all automatic stations around the site on the territory of Romania, located in the zone of influence of Kozloduy NPP on the territory of Bulgaria, as well as the results of laboratory analyses, were checked. Given the fact that the values submitted by the Gighera station have not been confirmed by any of these checks, this station has been shut down and is undergoing maintenance, said Lupu.
These clarifications are necessary for the population to know from an authorized source that there is no cause for panic in this regard, said a post on the agency's official Facebook page.
On November 26, the European Commission's radioactivity monitoring site published a map showing that there was an increase in background radiation at one point on the territory of Romania.
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