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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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