FW: [cdn-nucl-l] Further about Wolsong-3

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@aecl.ca>]

FYI

> ----------
> From: 	Brown, Morgan[SMTP:brownmj@aecl.ca]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, October 05, 1999 11:05 AM
> To: 	'cdn-nucl-l'
> Subject: 	[cdn-nucl-l] Further about Wolsong-3
> 
> Further details (quotes from Reuters) of the small incident at South
> Korea's
> Wolsong-3 reactor .  I snipped the repetitive stuff about the unrelated
> (except by the "nuclear" word) Japanese criticality accident.
> 
> - 22 workers were exposed to radiation Monday from a leak of heavy water
> during maintenance of the plant's water cooling pump, but they were not
> harmed. 
> 
> - spokesman for the plant said the leak, which took place at around 7 p.m.
> at Wolsung nuclear power reactor No.3 in northern Kyongsang Province, was
> stopped immediately. 
> 
> ``The amount leaked was small and not harmful,'' 
> 
> - leaked heavy water was about 45 liters and the leak was contained within
> the plant. The level of radiation was 440 millirem (0.0440 rem) [they mean
> 0.440 rem], nine percent of legally allowed radiation exposure.  [Was that
> the total dose for 22 workers, the average dose, or what?  Still quite
> low]
> 
> - ``The 22 workers were sent home after the accident yesterday but they
> returned for work today,'' 
> 
> - plant was conducting its own investigation into the cause of the
> accident.
> 
> 
> - South Korean government officials said after Japan's incident that they
> did not anticipate similar accidents occurring in Korea and they planned
> to
> pursue an ambitious nuclear power program. 
> 
> - The South Korean government, like Japan, favored nuclear power due to
> low
> production costs and the country's lack of natural power resources. 
> 
> - environmental groups have raised concerns over the issue and demanded
> the
> government halt the expansionist nuclear program. 
> ``The accident in Japan is likely to happen here. We are also living in
> the
> danger of a big nuclear accident,'' Lee So-young, energy coordinator at
> Green Korea United, a local environmental group, told Reuters Monday. 
> ``We will continue to urge the government to remove nuclear reactors in
> South Korea,'' she said. 
> 
> 
> cheerio
> 
> Morgan Brown
> 
> Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone.
> 
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