Update: Work resumes at Three Mile Island after leak...

[SidDithers]

http://www.reuters.com/article/ELECTU/idUSN2326085720091123

NEW YORK, Nov 23 (Reuters) - About 150 workers in a containment building at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania have returned to work a day after being sent home when monitors detected a radiation leak, Exelon Corp (EXC.N) said on Monday.

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In the latest incident, workers were cutting a pipe as part of the refueling and maintenance activities. There were some small irradiated particles inside the pipe, a spokeswoman said. Ventilation fans dislodged the irradiated particles and contaminated the indoor air, the company said.

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As of Sunday night, tests showed that 12 of the 150 workers received a detectable amount of radiation. The highest was 38.4 millirem, less than 1 percent of the federal occupational exposure limit of 5,000 millirem per year. Exelon said it has a more conservative standard of 2,000 per year.

Sid

[Craftsman]

1. Move along, move along, nothing to see here, and pay no mind to the 3 eyed fish

[tblue]

2. Just saw a documentary about The China Syndrome: Movies that Shook the World

If not for that film there would be over 1000 nuclear power plants in this country. That movie stopped the proliferation dead in its tracks.

I didn't even think TMI was still up and running. Haven't heard about it in years.