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Radiation leak at Three Mile Island nuclear plant: NRC
Washington (AFP) Nov 22, 2009 A radiation leak at Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history, has sent home about 150 workers, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported Sunday. "They had an airborne radiological contamination alarm," NRC spokeswoman Diane Screnci told AFP. "They evaluated all the workers, a handful of workers -- I don't have a precise number -- had contamination. They since have been decontaminated," she said. About 150 people work in the building where the leak occurred. Screnci said what she called a "leak... happened at 4:00 pm Saturday (2100 GMT) and they resumed work in the contaminated building" near Middletown, Pennsylvania. "There was no impact on public health safety and it does not appear to have an impact on the workers," she said adding that "this kind of incident occurs once in a while." So far, "they don't know the origin of the contamination," Screnci said. "There were a lot of activities going on at the time and when the alarm sounded. The engineers are working to determine what the cause was." "It's a minor incident," she said stressing it was "under control." Three Mile Island suffered a major accident in 1979, with the core of a reactor partially melting down. Since then no new nuclear power plants have been built in the United States. Nuclear energy supplies 20 percent of power in the United States with 104 reactors, while 50 percent comes from coal burning plants. The rest is from natural gas, oil and renewable sources such as hydroelectric power as well as solar and wind power. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Slovenia eyes second nuclear reactor by 2025: ministerLjubljana (AFP) Nov 20, 2009 Slovenia plans to build a second reactor at its nuclear power plant in Krsko between 2020 and 2025, Economy Minister Matej Lahovnik said here Friday. "The second reactor at Krsko will be built between 2020 and 2025," Lahovnik told a news conference. "I'm in favour of a second reactor since the nuclear option is very attractive and necessary for Slovenia," he said. The Slovenian ... read more |
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