Keys for nuke plant 'lost'
2006-04-03 21:14
Berlin - German authorities are changing 150 locks at a nuclear power plant after its owner said they had lost keys to a security area, a ministry spokesperson in the south western state of Baden-Württemberg said on Monday.
Plant operator EnBW said that in spite of intensive searches
and questioning, it had not been able to recover 12 keys for its
Philippsburg plant after discovering they were lost in March.
The environment ministry said EnBW informed it the keys were
missing and the operator had put extra safety measures in place
to control access to the secure area.
"This has never happened anywhere in Germany before," the
ministry spokesperson said.
"The keys have simply disappeared."
Prosecutors have launched an investigation for theft.