Ljubljana: Slovenia`s only nuclear plant Krsko said Thursday it has initiated a preventive shutdown over technical problems in the system for monitoring the temperature.
"We have detected technical problems in the system for monitoring the temperature of the primal reactor`s cooling," the Krsko nuclear plant said in a statement.
It added that "the technical problem has no impact at all on the plant`s safety."
"The shutdown is expected to last only 24 hours," the plant, situated 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of capital Ljubljana, said.
Thursday`s shutdown comes just two weeks after the plant had been shut down for its regular maintainance after an 18-month production cycle.
The Krsko power plant -- jointly built with Croatia in 1984 when both were part of the former Yugoslavia -- generates about 40 percent of the EU country`s electricity production.