Reactor's water cooler spiked with tritium

[The Straight Story]

Reactor's water cooler spiked with tritium


KAIGA, India, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- An Indian energy commission official said someone at a nuclear power plant deliberately put radioactive tritium in a water cooler.

About 40 or 50 employees who drank from the cooler on Nov. 24 outside the reactor area at the Kaiga plant in Uttara Kannada district in India had to be treated at a hospital for increased levels of radiation, the Press Trust of India and the Times of India reported Sunday.

"Somebody deliberately put the tritiated water vials into a drinking water cooler. Therefore, we are investigating who is behind the malevolent act," Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar said.

He said whoever is responsible will be punished under the Atomic Energy Act and other laws.

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