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Irish Examiner> Breaking News> Sport
12/06/2005 - 10:19:18 AM
Nuclear leak closes part of Sellafield site
A recent leak at Sellafield nuclear engineering plant could close
part of the site for months, it was reported today.
Production stopped at the site's Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant
(Thorp) in April after the discovery of a leak from a pipe, which
went undetected for up to eight months.
Sellafield's managing director, Barry Snelson, told the BBC the plant
may remain closed for months.
He described the incident as "a stumble, not a fall".
Safety regulators have indicated the discharge could result in
criminal charges, the BBC reported.
An investigation by British Nuclear Group last month found the pipe
may have begun to fail as early as August 2004, and that
opportunities were missed between January 2005 and April 19 that
would have shown material was leaking.
The pipe fractured and discharged nitric acid onto the floor of a
concrete-lined cell in the Thorp complex.
A secondary containment cell ensured there was no release of
radioactivity to the environment. The leak could not have been
prevented, but the amount of liquid released could have been reduced,
the report found.
No staff at the Cumbrian plant were contaminated.
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