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Molten splash kills worker in Russia
Associated Press
Published December 17, 2005
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Molten metal splashed from a smelter at a Russian nuclear power plant, killing one worker and severely burning two others, but authorities said Friday that no reactors were affected and no radiation escaped.
While relatively minor, the accident Thursday occurred on the same day prosecutors announced a "catastrophic radioactivity situation" involving improperly stored materials at a chemical factory in the Russian region of Chechnya.
The incidents were the latest to draw questions about how Russia stores, handles and disposes of nuclear materials and waste in the wake of the 1986 explosion of a reactor at Chernobyl in the world's worst civilian atomic accident.
The smelter accident happened at the Leningrad electricity generating station in the closed nuclear town of Sosnovy Bor, 50 miles west of St. Petersburg.
A 33-year-old worker died of injuries Friday, and two others were injured, said Yuri Lameko, chief doctor of the Sosnovy Bor hospital. The Emergency Situations Ministry said two of those involved suffered burns over 90 percent of their bodies.
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