This is one of our trusted nuclear energy employees. Do you think in training they might have just said to let the flashlight go?
For the bizzaro stuff...Is this news or humor?
For the bizzaro stuff...Is this news or humor?
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/03/10312115-nuclear-plant-worker-fell-into-reactor-pool
A worker was leaning over to retrieve a flashlight when he lost his balance and fell into a reactor pool at the San Onofre nuclear power plant last week but he did not receive a significant dose of radiation, Southern California Edison officials said on Friday.
The worker was wearing a life preserver when he fell into a pool more than 20 feet deep that holds water that circulates through the reactor core.
He received 5 millirems of radiation, Gil Alexander, a spokesman for plant operator Southern California Edison, told the North County Times.
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That's not considered a major dose and he went back to work the same day. By comparison, a chest X-ray provides about a 4-millirem dose.
The worker fell into the pool Jan. 27, five days before officials reported an "extremely small" amount of radiation could have escaped from the plant after a water leak prompted operators to shut down the reactor.
