Radioactive leak at Sweden's Studsvik gets level 2 severity rating

Studsvik AB

27/09/2017 15:15

STOCKHOLM, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Swedish Radiation Safety 
Authority has issued a level 2 severity rating on a 7-degree 
scale for an incident on Sept. 21 at a nuclear testing facility 
in which radioactively contaminated material spread at the site. 
    Level 2 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event 
Scale represents an "incident". The 1986 Chernobyl and 2011 
Fukushima disasters are level 7 on the INES scale.    
    The authority said the owner of the facility on Sweden's 
east coast, nuclear services firm Studsvik Nuclear  SVIK.ST , 
had started to decontaminate, and the contamination was confined 
to the site. 
    No one was on site at the time of the incident, it said.  
    It said the spread took place in connection with a false 
fire alarm and resulted in considerable surface contamination. 
It did not describe the incident further.  
    Studsvik Nuclear Chief Executive Michael Mononen said 
radiation levels in the contaminated areas of the facility are 
very low.   
 
 (Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, additional reporting by Johannes 
Hellstrom; Editing by Dale Hudson) 
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