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Explosion in smelter at Russian nuclear plant injures three people.
(From AP Worldstream)
Byline: IRINA TITOVA
An explosion in a smelter on the site of a Russian nuclear power plant severely injured three workers, but the state nuclear agency Rosenergoatom said Friday that radiation levels were normal.
The blast occurred on Thursday at the Leningrad nuclear power plant in the closed nuclear town of Sosnovy Bor, outside the northern city of St. Petersburg and about 600 kilometers (400 miles) northwest of Moscow. The smelter is operated by Ekomet-S, a company reprocessing scrap metal.
The blast threw a spotlight on what environmentalists called uncontrolled operations by such companies on sensitive sites.
"The enterprise ... functions illegally because there was no mandatory (state) environmental impact assessment on its construction," Dmitry Artamonov, head of the St. Petersburg branch of Greenpeace, told The Associated Press.
He said Greenpeace had appealed against Ekomet-S to the Sosnovy Bor prosecutors' office but it took no action.
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