Category Archives: Worker injury

NRC says that 2013 accident at Arkansas nuclear plant was worse than it first appeared

One March 31, 2013, workers at Arkansas Nuclear One, were removing a stator, a large part of a diesel generator, from the generator building. During the loading process, the stator slipped and fell to the floor of the building. One … Continue reading

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Peruvian radiographer loses part of finger following radiation exposure incident in France; two other workers exposed

The World Nuclear News just reported: A Peruvian radiographer has lost part of a finger after working with an unshielded iridium-192 source. The event is classified a ‘serious incident’ at Level 3 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). Details … Continue reading

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Fukushima plant manager enters hospital for treatment of unspecified illness

Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) is holding details close to the vest, but Bloomberg Businessweek reported this morning: Masao Yoshida, the manager of Japan’s crippled Fukushima atomic plant, was transferred to the hospital after almost nine months directing efforts to contain … Continue reading

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Worker hospitalized after fire at Idaho National Lab‏

A worker at the Idaho National Laboratory was hospitalized last Friday with burns sustained in a fire at the facility. Reuters reported: The chemical fire on Friday broke out in a building adjacent to a decommissioned, experimental reactor at the … Continue reading

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Six employees contaminated in incident at Idaho National Laboratory

Tuesday afternoon, seventeen contract employees at the Idaho National Laboratory were exposed to low levels of plutonium while working inside a decommissioned nuclear reactor. The Deseret News reported: The latest update issued by the emergency command center said that six of the 17 … Continue reading

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Crane accident injures two Fukushima workers

The bad luck at Fukushima continues. Vertikal.net just reported: Two men were injured on Saturday at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, while assembling a crawler crane. The men were installing the crane’s back mast using another crawler crane, … Continue reading

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