CNN is reporting that there was a "nuclear accident"-some sort of heavy water spill in Seoul, S. Korea. The accident occured last night about 7PM EST-14 hours ago. I don't know about you, but this is two accidents too many for me(!)...

-- chairborne commando (what-me-worry@armageddon.com), October 05, 1999

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Report: South Korea nuclear plant leak injures workers

October 5, 1999, Web posted at: 9:42 p.m. HKT (1342 GMT)

SEOUL, South Korea (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 reported on Tuesday.

Yonhap said the accident occurred at about 7 p.m. (6:00 a.m. EDT) on 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-ever 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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Duh-uh, and we "do not anticipate" any Y2K problems either, yeah right.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), October 05, 1999.

Make that three too many! I haven't seen anything else reported on this accident, anywhere. Wonder why?

Nuclear reactor malfunctions in Ukraine, forcing closure

9.38 a.m. ET (1344 GMT) October 2, 1999 KIEV, Ukraine (AP)

 A nuclear reactor malfunctioned at Ukraine's Khmelnytsky power plant, forcing plant operators to halt it for repairs, officials said Saturday. The only operational reactor at Khmelnytsky was shut down shortly before midnight Friday after a section of its cooling system went out of order, the Nuclear Regulation Administration, Ukraine's nuclear safety body, said.

The repairs were expected to last for a week, plant officials said. The Khmelnytsky plant is one of Ukraine's five nuclear power facilities which account for more than 40 percent of the former Soviet republic's electricity production.

Three more reactors at Khmelnytsky are under construction.

Minor accidents occur periodically at Ukraine's nuclear power plants, but they usually present no threat of a radiation leak or other danger to the environment.

Ukraine was the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, the 1986 explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant which sent a radioactive cloud over much of Europe.

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-- sandi (sandihere@mailcity.com), October 05, 1999.

Actually five by my count:

Plant north of NY City several weeks ago on the Hudson, and then Sep 3 we reported on this site "Serious Trouble With Chernobyl." But, then I guess it is all in how you define what an accident "IS!"

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), October 05, 1999.