[cdn-nucl-l] FW: Here We Go Again..... ( Wolsung 3 )

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@aecl.ca>]

FYI

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> From: 	Mercado, Don[SMTP:don.mercado@lmco.com]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Tuesday, October 05, 1999 9:31 AM
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> Subject: 	Here We Go Again.....
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> Twenty-Two Reported Hurt In S.Korea Nuclear Accident
> 
> SEOUL (Reuters) - Twenty-two workers were exposed to radiation at a South
> Korean nuclear power plant Monday from a
> leak of heavy water during maintenance on the plant's water cooling pump,
> Yonhap news agency.
> 
> Yonhap said the accident occurred at about 7 p.m. Monday at Wolsung
> nuclear
> power reactor No. 3 in northern Kyongsang
> Province, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.
> 
> Yonhap gave no further details and ministry officials were not immediately
> available for comment.
> 
> The leak follows Japan's worst nuclear accident last Thursday when workers
> mixing a uranium solution triggered a nuclear chain
> reaction at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, about 90 miles
> northeast of Tokyo.
> 
> Fifty-five people, mainly plant workers and emergency personnel who
> responded to the Tokaimura accident, were exposed to
> the radiation and three remain in serious condition. South Korean
> government
> officials said after Japan's incident that they did
> not anticipate similar accidents occurring in Korea. 
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