NUCLEAR PLANT
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(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, September 6. Part of Britain's nuclear processing plant, which produced fuel for bombs and electricity generators, had been shut down because of excessive radiation, the Atomic Energy Authority disclosed.
Two men who were in a contaminated section of the plant in Cumberland at the time had been under medical observation since the closing on August 24, the authority said. The incident occurred in the section producing plutonium fuel from uranium waste. The rest of the plant was not affected.
A spokesman for the Atomic Energy Authority said: “The radiation levels were very small and there was no abnormal exposure of personnel to them. “There has been no damage to the plant and no release of radioactive material from it The section has beenclosed pending a thorough ovotninafinn ”
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32395, 7 September 1970, Page 17
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