The Nation - News from Dec. 27, 1988
Radioactive gas escaped for about 10 minutes from the Connecticut Yankee nuclear generator near Haddam, Conn., but no one was injured and there was no danger to the public, a spokeswoman said. Barbara Luce of Northeast Utilities said the xenon-krypton leak occurred while technicians were taking a test sampling, but normal plant operations continued. She said the escaped vapor was measured at 2 one-hundredths of a millirem, a unit of radiation exposure.
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