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Bulgarian nuclear plant reports radiation
incident
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear plant reported a
rupture in a heating device on Monday which caused a leak of radioactive
solution into a pipeline in its turbine hall but it said the spill had caused no
contamination.
The plant said it registered the leak on Oct 7 at one of its
two 1,000 megawatt Russian-made units, which had been taken offline for annual
maintenance.
It said workers had taken a length of pipe into which the
radioactive solution had leaked to a radiation control zone and flushed it, and
that no radioactive pollution had been registered in the turbine hall or outside
of the plant.
"No radioactive contamination has been established in the
turbine hall, at the plant's site or outside of it. There is no contamination of
staff," the plant said in a statement.
It said a special commission was investigating the incident and the Balkan country's nuclear safety watchdog had been informed. It is the second security-related incident at Kozloduy this year. In March,
a pump malfunctioned at its other 1,000 megawatt unit and 22 of the reactor's
control rods did not move as required. The incident was assessed as "level two"
under the zero-to-seven International Nuclear Events Scale (INES), in which
seven is the most serious.
Bulgaria, which will join the European Union in January, has pledged to
close down two of its 440 megawatt units at Kozloduy by year-end over safety
concerns voiced by the bloc.
Its remaining two 1,000 megawatt reactors are to stay running until next
decade and then be decommissioned.
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