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Radiation Contained Inside Three Mile Island
According to TMI spokesperson Ralph DeSantis, employees were working in a reactor building around 4:30 yesterday afternoon. It was part of the process of removing TMI's old steam generators and installing the new steam generators that rolled into TMI in September.
DeSantis told abc27 that workers were cutting a large number of pipes. A radiation alarm sounded. According to DeSantis, employees inside the reactor building were wearing protective suits, but about 151 workers were monitored for exposure.
Only a handful were contaminated. DeSantis said they were decontaminated and sent home. He said that the contamination was not at a threatening level and was contained to one building at Three Mile Island. He stressed that the public was not in any danger.
DeSantis told abc27 that the cause is not yet determined. The entire plant is now shut down. Once operating again, work will remain shut down in the reactor building.
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posted by: brobinson on 12:30 pm on 11/22/09
They do have measures in place...*IF* the public were endangered, which it wasn't even close to. Radioactivity isn't the end-of-the-world technology so many fear-mongerers make it out to be. I've worked in a nuclear plant before, and it's most likely that it was just sediment in the piping that became irradiated that set the alarms off. The public was in no danger, because during maintenance like this, the reactor core is offloaded and the fuel rods separated (The fuel rods are what are dangerous. Uncontrolled, they'll build heat and massive amounts of radiation). Do some research, please, before falling prey to the fear-mongering of the media.
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