Monday, November 23, 2009 WASHINGTON: A radiation leak at Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history, has sent home about 150 workers, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reported Sunday."They had an airborne radiological contamination alarm," NRC spokeswoman Diane Screnci told media. "They evaluated all the workers, a handful of workers -- I don't have a precise number -- had contamination. They since have been decontaminated," she said.About 150 people work in the building where the leak occurred.Screnci said what she called a "leak... happened at 4:00 pm Saturday (2100 GMT) and they resumed work in the contaminated building" near Middletown, Pennsylvania."There was no impact on public health safety and it does not appear to have an impact on the workers," she said adding that "this kind of incident occurs once in a while."So far, "they don't know the origin of the contamination," Sc...
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