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Re: (AP) Leak at Japan Nuclear Plant Kills Four



And the point is . . . ?



--- "Strickert, Rick"

<rstrickert@signaturescience.com> wrote:



> But read the AP story at 

>

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040809/D84BMN3O1.html

> and you'll find:

> 

> 	"TOKYO (AP) - A nonradioactive steam leak killed

> four people and injured seven others Monday in the

> worst-ever accident at a Japanese nuclear power

> plant, officials said. One other worker was

> reportedly in critical condition.

> 

> 	".... Takahiro Seno, a spokesman for plant operator

> Kansai Electric Power, said the plant automatically

> shut down when steam began spewing from a leak in

> the turbine building area at the No. 3 nuclear

> reactor in Mihama."

> 

> The AP article also states: 

> 

> 	"Monday's was the second fatal accident at a

> Japanese nuclear plant.

> 

> 	"The first was in 1999, when a radiation leak at a

> fuel-reprocessing plant in Tokaimura, northeast of

> Tokyo, killed two workers and caused the evacuation

> of thousands of local residents. "

> 

> Note the change from "nuclear power plant", used in

> the article's first paragraph, to "nuclear plant"

> when associating the nonradioactive deaths at a

> reactor site to radiation deaths at a non-reactor

> site.

> 

> Rick Strickert

> Austin, TX





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