Nuclear Plant Leak Contained Without Injuries
A blown gasket caused about 10,000 gallons of mildly radioactive water to be spilled from a nuclear power plant, officials said Sunday.
Some radioactivity was measured in the spilled water and in the air inside the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station plant after the spill on Saturday, but it did not reach the atmosphere outside because of a special air-filtering system, said Karl Abraham, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman.
The 200 employees were not evacuated and no one was injured, said Herb Woodshick, spokesman for the plant.
“The plant was not affected by it and all the water was contained,” he said of the accident. “There was nothing really unusual about it; this was not an emergency. No one was contaminated by it. No one was endangered.”
The leak occurred in a filter plant that is part of the Unit 1 turbine but is separate from the main reactor building, he said. The water was being filtered before being sent back into the reactor.
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