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Novembre 2010 / Bellona

Lithuania’s shutdown nuclear power plant leaks 300 tonnes of radioactive sludge – could the accident repeat itself in Russia ?



Andrei Ozharovsky,

Around three hundred cubic metres of radioactive sludge was leaked into the operations area of Reactor Unit 1 at the closed down nuclear power plant Ignalina in Lithuania.

MOSCOW – Witnesses say the leak of three hundred tonnes of radioactive sludge at Lithuania’s closed-down Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) last October 5 – the accident occurred during decommissioning works at this site, which used to operate Chernobyl-type RBMK reactors – led to radiation (…)

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