A week ago the Croatian State Office for Radiological and Nuclear Safety notified officials in the Croatian municipality of Dvor to engage in the process of choosing a location for a state nuclear waste repository.

The Mayor of Dvor, Nikola Arbutina, explains that the Croatian parliament decided to start the process of choosing a location for the repository in secret. He adds that the Čerkezevac army storage facility is located four kilometers away from Dvor. It has been mentioned in the Croatian spatial plan as the only location for a repository since 1999.
Čerkezovac is an underground storage facility, where the Croatian army currently stores its ordnance ammunition. The local population is reportedly opposing the construction of the nuclear waste repository. Mayor Arbutina says they will first wait for the State Office for Radiological and Nuclear Safety to present the project, and then decide what to do.

The Slovene repository is less economical
In October Croatia's parliament adopted a strategy for the storage of low-level and medium-level radioactive waste from the Krško power plant. Their strategy envisages the construction of their own waste repository. By comparing similar projects in the EU, the Croatian Ministry of Economy found that the Croatian repository will be cheaper than the one Slovenia plans to build in Vrbina, near Krško.
Furthermore, Croatia is of the opinion that the Slovenian waste repository location, which is around 30 kilometers away from Zagreb, is less safe than its own repository, which will be located in a sparsely populated area near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina.