The Nation - News from Jan. 12, 1986
Forty-six pounds of radioactive uranium hexafluoride gas--the substance that killed an atomic plant worker in Oklahoma this month--leaked from a uranium enrichment plant at Piketon, Ohio, in one week, the Department of Energy, which owns the plant, said. Although the plant has special filters to monitor leaks, the leak went undetected for two weeks, apparently, the department said, because of vacations during the holiday season. Plant spokesmen said that the gas is only slightly radioactive.
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