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Mon 11 Nov 2009Radioactive water poisons 55 at Indian nuclear plant
INDIAN AUTHORITIES have begun investigating the radioactive contamination of a drinking water cooler at a nuclear power plant in southern Karnataka state that led to some 55 workers being treated for poisoning, senior government officials said yesterday.
Routine tests on Wednesday showed employees at the Kaiga plant, 450km northwest of Bangalore, had been exposed to increased levels of tritium, used in nuclear reactors, in the cooler.
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