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headlines dd: 04 09 1997
MOSCOW
Sept 4 (AFP) - Soldiers from a military base in Sokol
village near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk will all have to undergo medical
examinations
after being exposed to radiation from a highly
radioactive vial that was burried near their base. The vial has been
disposed of by emergency workers.

TORONTO
Sept 4 (UPI) - One of the units of Pickering npp had to
shutdown after a leak of 2 1/2 liters of heavy water from the
moderator heat exchange system. About 450 becquerels of tritium were
released into a nearby lake. It is not clear when the plant will be
restarted.

SYDNEY
Sept 4 (AFP) - The Australian government has decided to
rebuild a nuclear reactor in Sydney. The currently existing reactor is
being used to produce radioisotopes for medical use. The decision to
rebuild the reactor in Sydney instead of building a plant elsewhere
was inspired on the fact that the shortlived isotopes need to be
produced near an airport
so they don't deteriorate before reaching
there destination.

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