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



I felt it was one person received that dose and a second person a little less than
that. The rest of workers received much less exposure (based on my recollection).
And the exposure was from H-3 vapor. M. Jo

jack bell wrote:

> "Franta, Jaroslav" wrote:
>
> > > - 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
> > > - 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]
>
> *******************************************************
> Is this "exposure" from Tritium?, corrosion products,...?
>
> Jack Bell, bellstar@erols.com
>
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