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Twenty-Two Reported Hurt In S.Korea Nuclear Accident

SEOUL (Reuters) - Twenty-two workers were exposed to radiation at a South
Korean nuclear power plant Monday from a
leak of heavy water during maintenance on the plant's water cooling pump,
Yonhap news agency.

Yonhap said the accident occurred at about 7 p.m. Monday at Wolsung nuclear
power reactor No. 3 in northern Kyongsang
Province, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Yonhap gave no further details and ministry officials were not immediately
available for comment.

The leak follows Japan's worst nuclear accident last Thursday when workers
mixing a uranium solution triggered a nuclear chain
reaction at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, about 90 miles
northeast of Tokyo.

Fifty-five people, mainly plant workers and emergency personnel who
responded to the Tokaimura accident, were exposed to
the radiation and three remain in serious condition. South Korean government
officials said after Japan's incident that they did
not anticipate similar accidents occurring in Korea. 
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