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Report: South Korea nuclear plant leak injures workers

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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.

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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.

Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

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