Slovenia on Monday restarted its sole nuclear power plant after month-long regular maintenance work, nearly a year after an incident there triggered a Europe-wide alert, management said.
Plant equipment is in a good state and no particular problem was detected as 56 of the 121 nuclear fuel rods were replaced.
Maintenance work will again be carried out late next year.
The Krsko plant was shut down for five days last June when a loss was detected in the reactor's cooling system, which led to the first Europe-wide radiation alert since the system was put in place in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Slovenia came under fire for wrongly telling other countries that the whole episode was only an exercise.
Krsko works on an 18-month cycle, after which it is regularly closed for a month of maintenance.
During the last 18-month period, it generated 8.36 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity, 1.7 percent more than initially planned, the plant authorities said.
The Krsko nuclear power plant, which is jointly owned by Slovenia and neighbouring Croatia, was built by American-Japanese company Westinghouse and became operational in 1983 when the two countries were still part of the now defunct Yugoslavia.
Situated 120 kilometres (75 miles) east of Ljubljana, it produces 20 percent of all electricity used in Slovenia and covers 15 percent of Croatia's power needs.
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