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Concern over nuclear workers’ exposure to radiation

Radiation tests ordered at nuclear plant By DON PEAT, Toronto Sun  June 19, 2010 Bruce Power will be testing more of its employees for alpha radiation.An internal memo obtained by the Sun was sent to employees at the power station Friday advising them that tests done last year on those closest to the low-level radiation contamination show they may have received a dose.“Initial results for one long-time fuel handling worker at Bruce A indicate that dose attributable to alpha has been received,” the memo states.Last November, contamination was discovered in the reactor vault where up to 563 people had been working.The company eventually concluded that 195 workers had been exposed and ordered testing……….Bruce Power spokesman John Peevers said the decision was made to test more employees because “some of the assumptions we made in the past weren’t as accurate as we wanted.”

June 21, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, health | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive